Oleanna - Education
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- Created on: 17-05-16 20:50
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- Oleanna - Education
- Carol's Views
- "I'm doing what I'm told"
- Suggesting that Succeeding in education means doing as told - passively following instructions. Indicates complete lack of emotional + academic independence in act 1
- "there are people here... to get on in the world"
- Direct contrast to John, her's is that it's a means to an end - only useful so far as it helps a person achieve success
- "I don't think I need your help. I don't think I need anything you have"
- Freed herself from any need to seek John's approval. Her fem group given her new + radical views - sees it as a sexist structure run by men.
- "I'm doing what I'm told"
- John's Views
- "if the young child is told he cannot understand, he will take it as a description of himself"
- Account of his negative experience, should make hum sympathetic towards Carol. Actually accounts for his own self-centered insecurity
- " a test of your ability to spout back misinformation"
- Cynical view of exams accounts for his willingness to break rules for Carol. She is resentful of his casual disregard for a system that favors him + using the system of rules against him, she is able to steal his authority.
- "hazing"
- 1st borrowed from playground bullying to suggest education is nothing more than a "sick game"
- "Virtual warehousing of the young"
- suggests that failing to help students think on their own, the system keeps them imprisoned in immaturity
- "if the young child is told he cannot understand, he will take it as a description of himself"
- Context
- reading lists controversial - groups camp for broader lit hat trad written by "dead white men"
- 1992 article on PC on campus on campus published
- Unis adopted "speech codes" for staff. Sought to ban derogatory ref to race, etc.
- Written at time of growing PC movement against male dominance + course control by elite males
- Shows contrast between worth of system and it's criticisms
- Subject of ideological scrutiny
- Carol's Views
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