https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/not-all-thats-open-and-p2p-is-gold-a-case-of-hyper-neoliberal-openness-in-education/2011/08/13 Researching, documenting and promoting peer to peer practices Sat, 13 Aug 2011 23:39:19 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.15 https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/not-all-thats-open-and-p2p-is-gold-a-case-of-hyper-neoliberal-openness-in-education/2011/08/13/comment-page-1#comment-485760 Sat, 13 Aug 2011 23:39:19 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=18524#comment-485760 Mix education with business and you get business. For-profit colleges are a blight on the land, and now they want to introduce for-profit K-12 education. A proprietary trade school trades in proprietary knowledge, such as how to become Microsoft Certified, or Nissan Factory Authorized, or some other “body of knowledge” that can be arbitrarily created and/or destroyed (obsoleted). The whole point behind education (and not just higher education) is the advancement and dissemination of knowledge. While there is an element of competition there, it is most likely to be healthy competition when it is competition over recognition, mastery, achievements of one’s past students, institutional prestige…the usual intangibles. If anything, I’d rather make production work loook and feel more like education, than the other way around. I wish workers in all fields had the privilege of collegiality…of interacting with those in similar work more as colleagues and less as competitors; Adam Smith’s insinuations of collusion be damned. Less struggle to gain market share and more struggle to advance the state of the art, not only in teaching and research, but in production, logistics, services, crafts, etc.

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