tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1175530035414490569.post1745439496735978217..comments2024-03-22T12:17:50.789+01:00Comments on The corridor of uncertainty: Why free is not always best in educationAlastair Creelmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15437257475474703309noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1175530035414490569.post-92126949964138333482017-09-09T22:37:16.994+02:002017-09-09T22:37:16.994+02:00Certainly a big question inside the TEFL industry ...Certainly a big question inside the TEFL industry is how to make living if you don't have a sustainable teaching job. Ever more of our colleagues in the TEFL-Industrial-Complex (TIC) are in this position. Developing their blogs, seeking teaching gigs, inventing useful stuff in digital mindscapes. Alastair stresses: "accept that good and reliable tools and services cost money, as in the physical world." Better perhaps is "in the current capitalist world." Many people work, innvoate, passionately, not to earn a living but to be who they are, not selling their ideas in a marketplace. Many of the articles we write and publish, involving scores of hours of input, are never paid for in an monetary sense. Listen to the recent interview with Chomsky, he says some interesting things about why people work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXevpVXzePc We should in every reasonable and radical way be struggling to have cost-free dissemination of knowledge. That will require a different architecture of economy and society. In the one we're in, what Nik says (and Alastair underscores) of course seems to make some commercial even rational sense. But the sense we need is inexorably counter-hegemonic, in TIC and elsewhere.Bill Templer (Bulgaria)https://www.blogger.com/profile/02282409804709575299noreply@blogger.com