Brave New Education

NYC teacher on education reform:

'The high-stakes tests may be worthless as pedagogy but they are a brilliant mechanism for undermining the school systems, instilling fear and creating a rationale for corporate takeover. There is something grotesque about the fact that education reform is being lead not by educators but by financiers and speculators and billionaires.'

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"The truly educated become conscious. They become self-aware. They do not lie to themselves. They do not pretend that fraud is moral or that corporate greed is good. They do not claim that the demands of the marketplace can morally justify the hunger of children or denial of medical care to the sick."

Why the United States is destroying its education system
Chris Hedges
April 10, 2011

Modesty Blaise (dir Losey, 1966)

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"I know we've come a long way, 
We're changing day to day, 
But tell me, where do the children play?"


Cat Stevens

from Tea for the Tillerman

1970

... love for the future ...

Wanda Hazel Gág: bohemian

جوليانو مير خميس‎

לעולם אל תשכחו

امنحوا السلام فرصة للنجاح

in memoriam Juliano Mer-Khamis

recuerdos del otro 11 de setiembre ... el de 1973

"Cuántos tienen que morir
para ver la libertad."

No puedes volver atrás
(1964)



Víctor Lidio Jara Martínez (San Ignacio, 28 de septiembre de 1932 - Santiago, 16 de septiembre de 1973)

"The days of mere protest are over, and the days of separating war, and racism, and pollution of natural resources, and social injustice, and male chauvinism, into neat little compartments are over. I say this with the conviction—and if it sounds apocalyptic, o.k., it is apocalyptic—that unless all men and women of good will realize this very, very soon, and act on it, there will be no future, but an increasing horror followed by annihilation."

Denise Levertov
from a speech delivered at a rally
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
April 15, 1970