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Martin Buber on Education
"The real struggle is not between East and West, or capitalism and communism, but between education and propaganda...The tempo of propaganda is feverish, nervous. It is the pace of television and radio.... Whereas education goes at a slow pace. It is the pace of teachers talking with their students. It is the pace of a man reading by himself in a room. It cannot be hurried or speeded up and remain education."
I've posted this excellent thought on my blog at fraterdeus.com
It seems an appropriate reminder of the challenges for designers: to remain committed to education rather than propaganda. It is exceedingly difficult to be a professional symbolic worker without participating in propaganda, whether political or economic.
How can we begin to exercise our powers of understanding and presentation in favor of education, that is, as Buber said: Education means teaching people to see the reality around them, to understand it for themselves.
Perhaps Edward Tufte is in this camp. His work on decoding visual presentation provides perceptive and analytical tools which allow the viewer to uncover hidden distortions and agendas in the "propaganda" of the statistician, the advertiser, the economist, the politician.