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[jesuisgringoire]

I have an ethical question

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[numb3r_5ev3n]

This is the same dilemma I'm facing as well. I'd really like to go back to college - I've had several false starts due to having to fit it around work. I'm several thousand dollars in debt at the moment, and I'd just be racking up more if I kept on with it - but I'm almost too far along to even think about not going back. I am to the point where I can't take any more community college hours. None of them would transfer over

[jesuisgringoire]

I'm torn between thinking "education" sounds sinister, that college is just the vehicle of socialization for the status quo and that "merit" is a myth used to perpetuate white dominance...and thinking that I would really, really love to mimic my anthropology professor...the man funds trips to south american rainforests where he teaches sustainable agriculture to people who have been kicked out of their land and are being forced to cut down rainforests...(so he is feeding people and saving the fucking rainforest at the same time), and then he funds it all by showing a bunch of suburban white kids movies like "the corporation" and "hedwig and the angry inch" and lecturing on human evolution in the bible belt

[redpatcher]

I have a friend at evergreen that loves it. it's worth going into debt for something you might love.

[jesuisgringoire]

heh, I ended up deciding to do 18 months of school here in arkansas to become and RN, and pay for school almost out of pocket by being a nurse. I still plan on going to evergreen eventually, though, so it's good to hear people like it =)