The liberty narrative drives primary education politics rather than higher education

Evidence

The subject of the first of these versions is humanity as the hero of liberty. All peoples have a right to science. If the social subject is not already the subject of scientific knowledge, it is because that has been forbidden by priests and tyrants. The right to science must be reconquered. It is understandable that this narrative would be directed more toward a politics of primary education, rather than of universities and high schools. The educational policy of the French Third Republic powerfully illustrates these presuppositions. — Jean-François Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition, 259

Categorization

• XREF: The hero-of-liberty narrative’s political assumptions connect to the reader’s earlier reading on how free-press ideology reframed citizenship — education as the site where the people are constituted.