The Cynical Educator
Author | : Ansgar Allen |
Publisher | : Mayflybooks/Ephemera |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2017-04-28 |
ISBN-10 | : 1906948356 |
ISBN-13 | : 9781906948351 |
Rating | : 4/5 (56 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: Ground down, disenchanted, but committed to education. Unable to quit, yet deploring everything education has become. We suffer a weakened and weakening cynicism. This cynicism exploits the last remaining educational commitments of an otherwise broken workforce, draining that workforce of its final pleasure: Revolt. Our cynicism is reactionary and conditional - exhausting us where it might invigorate, rendering us complicit, giving safe passage to bad temper - but can be reclaimed. This book claims we need more cynicism, not less. With The Cynical Educator a revived, militant Cynicism affronts us. Drawing on a long history of religious denial and philosophical intrigue, it brings our educational bad faith to the surface. It confronts the educated with the fruit of their conceit.