「差別のあるところに公害が起こる」（原田［2007:123］） http://www.arsvi.com/w/hm06.htm “Pollution Damage happens where there is Discrimination” — Masazumi Harada “Any distinguishing characteristic, whether social or biological, can serve as a pretext for discrimination and thus a cause of suffering…” — Paul Farmer Farmer, Paul. Pathologies of Power. University of California Press, Berkely: 2005 (p. 46)
education for citizenship, or paideia, must be rigorous and involve the building of character and ethical integrity as well as gaining knowledge . This is even more the case when it comes to eliminating hierarchy. Rigorous education and training, in turn, involve a systematic, carefully planned, organized learning process… The sovereign incentive for all learning is the learner’s awareness of his own growing power.
This quote from Albert Camus’s The Myth of Sisyphus keeps coming to mind as I read The System’s View of Life: A Unifying Vision and The Voice of the Earth: An Exploration of Ecopsychology. Forever I shall be a stranger to myself. In psychology as in logic, there are truths but no truth. Socrates’”Know thyself” […]
… admit that little is to be expected from present-day governments, since these life and act according to a murderous code. Hope remains only in the most difficult task of all: to reconsider everything from the ground up, so as to shape a living society inside a dying society.
I’m not sure if I can make good use of a WordPress blog. But since autistici’s offerings (e-mail accounts and static web sites) are fascinating, I thought I’d try a NoBlogs site too. I wonder if BuddyPress could replace Groupme for a family that wants to share text and image conversations privately? Teaching English with […]