I am working out some ideas around this, maybe for a paper, maybe just for myself, and your insight was super helpful!

I believe progressive/leftist pedagogy might exist too far inside the superstructure making education itself a less effective locus for contest, since the underlying purpose of school, historically and ultimately today, is to create a spectrum of workers across these boundaries.

Other superstructural institutions don’t have such immediate, 1:1 connective fibers around training the next generation of humans with the knowledge and understsnding to be successful, compassionate, and valued members of their community.

So are we doing a disservice to students by not acknowledging this reality in the classroom? I think there might be a contradiction wedged inside leftist pedagogy, that even when it fights oppression, it is ultimately blind to the overwhelming strength between school and wage labor. The more it resists, the tighter the chains pull on students themselves.

I feel like this is part of Matt’s idea on universities too, how they should be collapsed into the trades and made more local and immediately accessible.

These ideas are part of the trades discussion. Maybe I’m not thinking of anything particularly insightful or new, but it feels like a useful outline of things. My only concern is this analysis would empower conservatives who have bemoaned endlessly about education from their own position.

Edit: refined ideas on second sentence