Forgive me if I’m just overthinking or thinking about nothing, I’m just wondering how educated should a worker be to be class conscious?
How I came to thinking was just pondering on people who are gullible to other people’s opinions, and the ethics of ethical education? Maybe just nonsense meta stuff, but what exactly can people do, and how can we teach people to be self-aware enough to listen to what they truly believe in. Especially when it comes to adolescents who are surrounded by information dumping news sources and ideas from all sides, and any one source just has to be charismatic/bold enough for it to stick in someone’s head for long term
https://redsails.org/masses-elites-and-rebels/
One should never stop investigating new things, but let’s not pretend ideology is a matter of credentialed or non-credentialed education or sheer “intelligence” or “knowledge”. These things factor in, but what people think they have the highest incentive to ascribe to is just as important. This is part of the reason that academics aren’t more open-minded on average but just more adept at defending their positions (or seeing where some element isn’t necessary and letting go of it to better defend the core).
That said, Paulo Freire’s “Pedagogy of the Oppressed” is a cool book.