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what makes this particularly grim
is that the student has less chance
than the black man of getting out of
his bag. Because the student
doesn't even know he's in it. That,
more or less, is what's happening
in higher education. And the
results are staggering.
For one thing damn little
education takes place in the
schools. How could it? You can't
educate slaves; you can only train
them. Or, to use an even uglier and
more timely word, you can only
program them.
At my school we even grade
people on how they read poetry.
That's like grading people on how
they fuck. But we do it. In fact, God
help me, I do it. I'm the Adolph
Eichmann of English 323, Simon
Legree of the poetry plantation.
'Tote that Jamb! Lift that spon
dee!'Even to discuss a good poem
in that environment is potentially
dingerous because the very
classroom is contaminated. As
hard as I may try to turn students
on to poetry, I know that the desks,
the tests, the IBM cards, their own
attitudes toward school, and my
own residue of UCLA method are
turning them off.
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Another result of student slavery
is equally serious. Students don't
get emancipated when they
graduate. As a matter of fact, we
don't let them graduate unti
they've demonstrated their
willingness - over 16 years - to
remain slaves. And for important
Jobs, like teaching, we make them
go through more years, just to
make sure. What I'm getting at is
that we're all more or less niggers
and slaves, teachers and students
alike. This is a fact you want to
start with in trying to understand
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well what is happening ar
the high schools, you can
wider social phenomena, say,
politics, in our country and in other
countries.
Educational oppression is
trickier to fight than racial op
pression. If you're a black rebel,
they can't exile you; they either
have to intimidate you or kill you.
But in high school or college, they
can just bounce you out of the fold.
And they do. Rebel students and
renegade faculty members get
smothered or shot down with
devestating accuracy. In high
school, it's usually the student who
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gets it; in college, it's more often
the teacher. Others get tired of
fighting and voluntarily leave the
system. Dropping out of college,
for a rebel, is a little like going
North, for a Negro. You can't
really get away from it so you
might as well stay and raise hell.
How do you raise hell? That's a
whole other article. But just for a
start, why not stay with the
analogy? What have black people
done? They have first of all, faced
the fact of their slavery. They've
ssors, who know perfectly
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forget it. Stillness reigns.
stopped kidding themselves about
an eventual reward in that Great
Watermelon Patch in the sky.
They've organized; they've
decided to get freedom now, and
they've started taking it.
Students, like black people, have
immense unused power. They
could, theoretically, insist on
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By CHERYL MANNING
Staff Writer
Carolina student leaders who
attended the Governor's
Leadership Conference last
weekend "hope it's continued."
"I am in favor of any conference
in the state which brings together
college studentz.'There aren't too
many opportunities like that,"
stated Jim Bradford, a student
senator.
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"Most conferences are for in
terest groups of more narrow
perspectives," Bradford con
tinued. "This group was not made
of any one segment of the student
population. The students at the
conference reflected how con
cerned young people are in this
state."
"The quality of the speakers was
excellent," Bradford emphasized.
"Vice Mayor Jackson from
Atlanta was dynamite. Black
students and white students were
enthusiastic about what he had to
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slave
participating in their own
education. They could make
academic freedom bilateral. They
could teach their teachers to thrive
on love and admiration, rather
than fear and respect, and to lay
down their weapons. Students
could discover community. And
they could learn to dance by
dancing on the IBM cards. They
could make coloring books out of
the catalogs and they could put the
grading system in a museum. They
could raze another set of walls and
let education flow out and flood the
streets. They could turn the
classroom into where it's at - a
'field of action' as Peter Marin
describes It. And, believe it or not,
they could study eagerly and learn
prodigiously for the best of all
possible reasons -- their own
reasons.
They could, theoretically. They
have the power. But only in a very
few places, like Berkeley, have
they even begun to think about
using it. For students, as for black
people, the hardest battle isn't with
Mr. Charlie. It's with what Mr.
Charlie has done to your mind.
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"Overall, the conference was
well set-up. Gov. McNair by his
presence both days seemed to
indicate interest in creating a
student forum," Bradford said.
Barry Knobel, student body
president, was on the steering
committee for the conference.
"The conference in general was
excellent," he said. '1'm
prejudiced because I helped set it
up."
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Knobel was appointed tem
porary chairman of the S. C.
Student Body President's
Association which was organized
during the conference. He said the
Association may. sponsor similar
conferences in the future through
the governor's office.
"One of the major things which I
thought significant about the
conference is that it happened,"
Knobel remarked. "College
leadership and students in general
have not been utilized by the state
to the extent to which they should
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pressed by the students. "It was a
nice place to meet people. We have
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