"...os explicaré cómo saber leer cambió la vida de un hombre. Se llamaba Frederick Bailey y fue uno de tantos esclavos de color allá por el año 1820. A los esclavos les metían en la cabeza, tanto desde las plantaciones como desde los púlpitos y como desde las cámaras legislativas, la idea que eran inferiores hereditariamente. Había una norma muy reveladora: los esclavos debían seguir siendo analfabetos. En el sur de antes de la Guerra Civil americana, los blancos que enseñaban a leer a un esclavo recibían un castigo severo..."
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qué cosas! http://portal.unesco.org/culture/en/ev.php-URL_ID=5420&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html
#5 yo también tengo un botijo que hace el agua muy fresquita
#1: Nada es casualidad
#6: te lo has comido?
Delicioso texto.
Curioso
¿De que color era?
Unas cuantas URLs que dan que pensar:
John_Gatto http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gatto
Articulos de opinión:
"Here is another curiosity to think about. The homeschooling movement has quietly grown to a size where one and a half million young people are being educated entirely by their own parents. Last month the education press reported the amazing news that children schooled at home seem to be five or even ten years ahead of their formally trained peers in their ability to think." http://www.naturalchild.org/guest/john_gatto.html
We all are. My grandfather taught me that. One afternoon when I was seven I complained to him of boredom, and he batted me hard on the head. He told me that I was never to use that term in his presence again, that if I was bored it was my fault and no one else's. The obligation to amuse and instruct myself was entirely my own, and people who didn't know that were childish people, to be avoided if possible. Certainly not to be trusted. That episode cured me of boredom forever, and here and there over the years I was able to pass on the lesson to some remarkable student. For the most part, however, I found it futile to challenge the official notion that boredom and childishness were the natural state of affairs in the classroom. Often I had to defy custom, and even bend the law, to help kids break out of this trap." http://www.wesjones.com/gatto1.htm
Su libro "The Underground History of American Education"
http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/chapters/index.htm
Alan_G._Carter http://www.reciprocality.org
"One may think that this model might not apply in pre-school children, but I believe a case can be made. From the perspective of a person free of dopamine self-addiction, the world is a rich, beautiful, elegant place. Many mappers develop a certain reverence - love - of the world we see. Our society denies this world in every word and deed, presenting instead a shallow mockery of the reality. For a sufficiently aware child in a society distorted in this specific way, I argue that just acquiring language can be enough to make a child vulnerable to the ambient yammering in society. From there we can get to stress-induced immune weakness as in ADHD. Some years ago there was an hypothesis that autistic children lack sensory filters, and can become overloaded. This seemed to be displaced by claims that autistic children cannot form interpersonal relationships. Yet according to the majority, I can't form relationships because I haven't memorised the correct conversations and so have no social skills. In fact, my relationships (with other aware people) are deeper and more stimulating than I believe the majority can imagine. It does seem to be the case that aware children have a richer sensory experience than "doped" ones." http://www.reciprocality.org/Reciprocality/add.html
qué interesante!
Muy recomendable su Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave