Sunday, September 9, 2012

I Couldn't Make This Up

I got this in an e-mail today. It's not clear to me what the students learn in the departments listed at the end of the press release. Will the students pass the graduation exam?
To quote from their flyer:
"The Plum Academy: An Institute for Situated Practices is an experimental school-as-exhibition.
  • Concepts and ideas will take the forefront, rather than materials, styles and conventional aesthetics.
  • Specially selected facilitators from the regional community and beyond direct forums that approach topics obliquely, find unique entry points to ideas and challenge the established structures of education.
  • (To assist in taking a different look at education, we use the terms “forum” and “facilitator” rather than “class” and “teacher,” respectively.)"
Forums fall into the following Academy departments:
  • The Department of Psycho-Cartography,
  • The Department of Cultural Husbandry, and
  • The Department of Chance.

Good luck to them.  But I hope my tax money isn't actually funding this effort.

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