What is the purpose of education?

In this founding conversation, historian, educator, and activist Dr. Butch Ware argues that education is not simply about acquiring knowledge—it's about becoming more fully human.

Recorded at the School of Radical Imagination's inaugural summit, Education in Times of Revolution, this conversation explores how systems of education have been used to uphold empire, capitalism, and white supremacy, and what it would mean to reimagine learning as a practice of liberation instead.

Together, we discuss the Black liberation tradition, lifelong learning, imagination as resistance, parenting, spirituality, and why the ultimate purpose of education is to cultivate human beings capable of building societies rooted in love, justice, and care.

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