Never Let Schooling Interfere with your Education

Historically, industrialisation triggered the end of craft and design that in turn divided the makers from the thinkers.  Modernism allowed this transition.  As a result it made the concept of an arts education complicated. With Modernism ruling the market, a college education dominated this thinking, allowing years of psychological self regard to reaffirm the individual but unfortunately created a hermeticism that disconnected us from lower Middle Class/Working class America, making education suspect and irrelevant.

The artworld retreated thinking of itself as superior, believing that it could survive through the private sector.  And the private sector somehow conquered the education market, with university colleges costing more than $40,000 a year. This fact alongside a turbulent job market makes the choice to attend higher education a difficult decision that continues to help maintain the inequalities that burden our society.

Education is essentially a necessity. A country, in order to maintain its dominant position, in the world economy needs an educated workforce in whatever subject that be.  To learn is a joy of life, and everyone should have access to this opportunity.

Bois Groys suggested in a text concerning art education that an arts education today, specifically, has no definite goal, no method and no particular content that the students can be taught.  In a liberal arts education the student tends to make or research work that gives them hope in revealing the struggles of modern day life in an attempt to positively change their landscape with socially charged work.   This “change” rarely can be achieved through a private educational sector, but rather we should leave the capitalistic institution and to go into the community itself and heal the world from there.

Some people throughout Chicago, the US and Europe have used their frustrations with institutions to good and created their own “institutions” to educate the people for free, with relevant content, for real ‘learning’.

To help us understand these splinter institutions, I interviewed..