The terms "school" and "society" in the same breath always compel a random dissection. I will make sentence-per-sentence marks. ___ We are all involved in sch

The terms "school" and "society" in the same breath always compel a random dissection. I will make sentence-per-sentence marks. ___ We are all involved in schooling, from both the side of production and that of consumption. ___ I don't believe that we can distinguish these sides anymore in western culture, nor can we believe that we are all involved together, in anything. ___ We are superstitiously convinced that good learning can and should be produced in us-and that we can produce it in others. ___ Superstitiously, yes, but not in others. Learning inherently differs from knowledge. It reins in the whole of one's own life experience into a worldview and ability to perceive through those of others. Knowledge is a commodity, cf. "the end of history," and schooling, as the nearest authority on anything, will tell you that it's worth it, the ends justify the means. The poet Rilke compares scholastic commencement to "slavery." ___ Our attempt to withdraw from the concept of school will reveal the resistance we find in ourselves when we try to renounce limitless consumption and the pervasive presumption that others can be manipulated for their own good. ___ For instance: "resistance" "try" "renounce" "pervasive" "presumtion" "manipulated". . . as an example, can you recall completing a year of primary, secondary, or post-secondary school without seeing at least three of your classmates held to systematic humiliation? __ No one is fully exempt from the exploitation of others in the schooling process. ___ As is no one of us truly involved with everyone in the schooling of others. ___ School is both the largest and the most anonymous employer of all. Indeed, the school is the best example of a new kind of enterprise, succeeding the guild, the factory, and the corporation. ___ Its first and final claim to fame. ___ The multinational corporations which have dominated the economy are now being complemented, and may one day be replaced, by supernationally planned service agencies. These enterprises present their services in ways that make all men feel obliged to consume them. ___ Bet you can't eat just one. I don't like the stark ambiguity in the use of "supernationally." The connotation is dubious. __ They are internationally standardized, redefining the value of their services periodically and everywhere at approximately the same rhythm. ___ Mozart for babies. Just do it.