Farred analyzes his apartheid education in 'philosophical memoir'
November 20, 2024
November 20, 2024
ITHACA, New York, Nov. 20 -- Cornell University issued the following news:
Schools under the purview of the Coloured Affairs Department in 1970s South Africa were designed to under-educate students or not educate them at all, according to scholar Grant Farred, who received his secondary and college education in precisely this system.
Yet "out of the most adverse conditions for pedagogy emerges a lifelong commitment to thinking," Farred, professor of Africana s . . .
Schools under the purview of the Coloured Affairs Department in 1970s South Africa were designed to under-educate students or not educate them at all, according to scholar Grant Farred, who received his secondary and college education in precisely this system.
Yet "out of the most adverse conditions for pedagogy emerges a lifelong commitment to thinking," Farred, professor of Africana s . . .