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Triloon

(506 posts)
7. I assure you...
Tue May 25, 2021, 05:24 PM
May 2021

It was not around when I got out of school 50 years ago. If it had been available I would have been all over it. I did find my way to a couple symposiums and there were plenty of informal discussions, but there were no scheduled classes, no credentialed teachers, no curriculum, no organized teaching. Anybody that was interested in it was on their own. There were plenty of books on the subjects, but no one was showing them to us. Like, I read Soul on Ice when it was first published, not because it was part of any schooling, but there was a review of it in a hippie street newspaper so I went looking for it. Same with W.E.B. duBois. I was reading him in 6th grade on my own when my classwork was reading Huck Finn. Right? lol. So I'm pretty envious of later students who have had whole organized courses of study formally available to them, and I consider them all to be wonderfully privileged by it.
And that's why I'm not so impressed with the young mans twitter post in the OP.

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