The Importance of Education

Frida Ghitis: The idea that people who are illiterate or uneducated are marginal within a conflicting whole. So he says, we want to shift from the view of the literate as the empty man to the illiterate as the marginal man and then says that you can't see marginal as excluded from the system,. but rather integral to it. She says education is filling empty vessels with knowledge - not other ways of knowing which would be generative in Ferraris terms.Ghitis: People who have the power to be experts get to decide what is and isn't knowledge. And so other ways ofKnowing and the people who use them are marginalized.

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