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Cde Tshegofatso Mogaladi says to "take the debate further". Let us do so. What the Communist University can offer to this debate includes, but is not limited to, the following: . Communist University postings on this e-mail forum. The current course is the "Education" course. Do not be put off by the fact that it is in progress. Communist University courses are designed like bus routes. You are encouraged to hop on at any stage. . Communist University archive. Here is an image of the top of main index page of the archive: <http://studycircle.wikispaces.com/Communist+University> CU Index Page.jpg . Here is an image of part of the "Education" page of the archive (the current course): <http://studycircle.wikispaces.com/23+Education> CU Education Course Page.jpg . The People's Education for People's Power web site: This is an archive of documents about privatisation of education. Here is an image of the Home Page: <https://counter-summit.wikispaces.com/> Web Site Home Page.jpg . This Discussion Forum as a site of Freirean dialogical pedagogy Just to encourage Cde Alex to return to this debate, let me say that I think that the SACP had a good critique of education in January or February of 2013, in other words three years ago. The SACP understood, then, that schools need to be teaching the history of our struggle, and teaching the languages of the country, and teaching in those languages. Schools should not be teaching Bantu-education-style "maths literacy", but proper mathematics. The SACP understood the threat of privatisation, then. The SACP knew then, that the attack on the teachers' union, SADTU, was vicious, mendacious, and dangerous for education and for the revolution. But the SACP has dropped the ball. Talk of "radical second phase" means very little, if in practice the Party's message is weaker today than it was three years ago. Why does the SACP constantly refuse to link the Communist University to its web site? There is a button there for the CU, but it goes nowhere. Repeated attempts to get the Party to fix the broken link have had no effect. It seems like the SACP national office doesn't want it. Other web sites carry our link, but not the SACP. This sends a very disappointing message to the CU, and to the world. It is embarrassing. The SACP is our home. Why are we rejected by our home? By the way, the CU is, and is intended to be, a living critique of Higher Education and of education in general. The CU is supposed to be a part of any debate on education, all the time. In Higher Education, where our GS is the Minister, there is good management, which is necessary and very valuable. More than merely valuable, actually. Good management is essential, as Lenin will tell you if you study him carefully. But there is no critique. On the contrary, we seem to have gone backwards when the Minister expects corporates to pay more because they are the main users of the product. To say this is to define Higher Education as producer of commodity labour power. Which may be true, but it needs to be qualified, at the very least. Are we happy to settle for such a miserable, utilitarian status quo? I don't think so. Now, let's take the debate further VC -- -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] . --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "YCLSA Discussion Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
