Chapter 1: Beyond A Value Based Education

Corporatization of the academy ensures all systems of education are affected. As grant dollars are funneled toward building projects, the improvement of athletic programs and engorging of the administrative body, the education of students as critical social agents is relegated to the margins of public life. Private industry, with its tentacled hold on education, ensures the divestiture of subjectivity as it propagates capitol ‘T’ truth, represented in the prescriptive means by which kindergarten through tertiary students are educated. Conceptual and ontological legitimization of social systems, as the mechanism of state enforcement also ensures maximum returns on investment in public schooling for private industry. Coercive power structures then, restricting access to everyday freedoms, continue to be woven into the liminal fabric of student consciousness.