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As Noam Chomsky says, it is useful to distinguish between our visions (“the conception of a future society that animates what we actually do”) and our goals (“the choices and tasks that are within reach”).
Sense and Solidarity
Jean Drèze
As we saw in Chapter IV, the schoolteacher’s job had come to be defined under colonial rule as one of transmitting and elucidating the forms and content of knowledge selected by bureaucratic authority for inclusion in the prescribed textbook. English administration had divested the teacher of all power to select or reshape knowledge. The administration had used the prescribed textbook and the examination system as two principal instruments to obtain a total subordination of the teacher.
Political Agenda of Education
Krishna Kumar
Making writing a big deal tends to make writing difficult. Keeping writing casual tends to keep it possible. Nowhere is this more true than around the issue of time.
The Right to Write
Julia Cameron
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