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Here are a couple (albeit similar!) visions for education by two great modern thinkers. From The Age of Insecurity: Coming Together As Things Fall Apart by Astra Taylor What we need, instead, is a system of education that is public, universal, reparative, and free. By public I mean funded by public dollars, not by tuition or by debt. By universal, I mean a space for everyone at every stage of life, where all subjects can be explored. By reparative, I mean an education system designed to acknowledge and actively redress past and ongoing social inequalities. By free, I mean in both price and purpose: education must be free in cost and aimed at freedom by unbinding curiosity. Should these conditions be met, education could actually be the motor of equality, opportunity, and learning so many of us want it to be. If we dedicate more public resources to cultivating curiosity, we can all be more secure. - Astra Taylor From from Bone of the Bone: Essays on America by a Daughter of the Working...