Student Power As Political Power: Arrogance or Ignorance, Heroic or Reckless
By Terry Nettle
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This book examines the issue of student power as a political power in human society and the psychology of student power. It reviewed the historical perspectives of student power and the related dogmatic ideas of democracy and freedom.
As a case study, it considered the peculiar case of the Hong Kong student protests, and the cancer of anger and bitterness that plagued many such protests. It provided pointers on useful lessons to be learned for student protests and posed various questions that needed answers.
The book also highlighted the new politics that is needed to address such issues.
The writer noted that the age of violent confrontation in human societies should be over. Humans need to find new ways to settle differences and to make the necessary changes peacefully.
It is argued that it is more appropriate for student power to be unleashed in the classrooms and the lecture halls than in the political arena. It is time for student power as a political power to be carefully reconsidered.
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Student Power As Political Power - Terry Nettle
Chapter 1 Mathicracy
There is a new people 's power in town. It is called Mathicracy
.
Mathitis is the Greek word for student and kratos is the Greek word for rule or power. If we put them together, it is Mathicracy
or student power, much like democracy means people's rule or people power.
Chapter 2 Student Power
If one thinks about it carefully, the words Student Power
seem to be an oxymoron because what power does a group of young people who are still learning the ways of the world has?
The fact is that society has a special concern and a duty of care towards students, and all societies tend to give students a lot more leeway than to any other groups of people. They are the treasure of our society and they are our future. Students have power because they are cherished and loved just like our children.
But in reality, they are young and inexperienced, impressionable and impulsive, often idealistic and simple-minded, and are prone to jump to conclusions, especially if they are specially cultivated by manipulative adults with an agenda. In particular, younger students tend to look up to the more senior students and, as a group, they tend to over-simplify issues and act impulsively and emotionally based on their limited knowledge.
Students learned from their history lessons about how human society had progressed through the hard work and sacrifices of many remarkable personalities in the past. They therefore cannot help but become impressed by those heroics and learned to idolise these heroes of human history. They are motivated to emulate their idols. This is indeed their admirable quality.
But, just because so many in human history have sacrificed their lives through so much bloodshed to bring human society to its present stage of development should not mean that we need to fight in the same way to advance it further. Young people should learn from the violent history of humankind and understand that peace has to be treasured and safeguarded, and improvements can be made step-wise and peacefully. To protest violently and cause serious loss of life and property is unproductive, inefficient and regressive. It would be much better to use dialogue and peaceful means to resolve problems.
Students in particular need to heed this call for peace and not insist on violent confrontation to secure justice and improvements. After all, they now have so many other ways available to them, including all the information technology and communication and social media methods, to air their views and grievances and seek the necessary changes. However, on the omnipresent and omnipotent social media, young people will really need to learn to be more civil and less confrontational, more deliberative and less judgmental, and more sympathetic and less hateful. They should behave more like students who learn, and less like teachers who dictate. They should have their youth and fun back. The should not allow a few self-righteous so-called student leaders, who are really accidental leaders thrown up by the inexperienced and largely carefree student population, to call the shots. The should not allow themselves to be made pawns and foot soldiers of seasoned political activists and conspirators.
They