Re: <nettime> : Re: New Media Education and Its Discontent

[Benjamin Geer <ben@socialtools.net>]

monica ross wrote:
> Yes, some people are getting paid and others are paying - in some
> countries, including ones rich enough for it to be free to all.

And in some countries, it *is* free for all.  Funnily enough, in France 
for example, the idea of the 'student as consumer', dictating what he or 
she wants to be taught, seems to be practically nonexistent, and there 
is a great deal less anti-intellectualism.

Ben

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