In ENOUGH: A PEDAGOGIC SPECULATION, Robbie McClintock criticizes
education and culture and searches out, not the predictable, but
the possible. To open the sense of possibility, McClintock
postulates a distant future in which people have a collective trust
in personal autonomy. They prize, not change, but stability, not
the market, but the commons, and not more, but enough -- neither
too little nor too much. From this future vantage, McClintock looks
back on a basic question: Why have people confused education with
the practice of schooling? This question leads to a full analysis
of modernity, for the global practice of compulsory schooling uses
the same principles as other ubiquitous parts of modern life --
industrial corporations, sovereign nation-states, global commerce,
and the bureaucratization of medicine, the military, and social
life. What principles are essential to contemporary life? In
response, McClintock addresses important topics -- how we think
about experience; how we understand the acting self; how we
represent life in time and space; how we judge value in material,
political, and cultural life; what we choose as our controlling
purposes; and how we shape and situate our educational effort. With
lucid examples from everyday experience, McClintock clearly
contrasts the principles of life in the modern era with ones that
may characterize a postmodern time. ENOUGH offers neither policies
nor predictions. It asks all, as persons reflecting on how they
want to conduct their lives, to consider possibilities. It
encourages aspiration based, not on probability, but on hope -- on
desire for what a person judges to have significant human worth.
The autonomous pursuit of possibility enables each person to add,
in a vital, historical sense, to the drama of human achievement, to
the self-creation of life itself. Each person, each seeking unique
possibilities, interacts to conduct a personal life, lived through
a vastly complicated network of reciprocal interactions, stretching
from the intimate to the all-inclusive. Education -- each of us
self-organizing our emergent capacities for conducting life in all
its complexity -- unfolds as each of us works to control what takes
place in life, as best each can.
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