Education of some sort has been around since the dawn of man. In the early days knowledge was informally passed down generation by generation through experience. In ‘ age “education” takes place within the confined limits of a school building. Learning is ordered around conceptual activities and not experience.

Though, in a post-capitalist society, how would schooling take place? Certainly the early experiential model is rather inefficient and outdated for today’s demands. And current schools are little more than prisons where children are sent off to be emotionally tortured. Schooling as we know it know would not exist in a post-capitalist society.

So, how would we be educated. Certainly things would take place in a voluntary and non-coercive manner. There would be little formal distinction between instructor and pupil, after all there is always something we can learn from each other. Students would take control of their schools in a revolutionary time. Bureaucrats (administrators, disciplinarians, etc.) would be run out. Teachers, people knowledgeable in a certain field, would be welcome, but would have no more authority than the students. In fact, we would all be teachers, learning from each other.