Pedagogy in sense provides not only important critical and intellectual competencies; it also enables people to intervene critically in the world. The new illiteracy is about more than not knowing how to read the book or the word; it is about not knowing how to read the world.
Henry Armand Giroux - One of the founding theorists of critical pedagogy in the United States, he is best known for his pioneering work in public pedagogy, cultural studies, youth studies, higher education, media studies, and critical theory.
Critical Pedagogy, he advocates the need to make pedagogy central to politics itself, and to help create the conditions necessary for the development of a formative culture that provides the foundation for developing critical citizens and a meaningful and substantive democracy
Society is said to evolve as a (bloody) pendulum: a conservative cycle/a liberal cycle; action and reaction; back and forth like the tides, always taking a toll of death.
As long as we are trapped in these cycles and do not actively try to break their passive succession, we cannot expect much in the way of liberation;
we cannot even expect fundamental change, except the awful slow variety where each step takes two generations or more. (Robbins, T., 1985).
“The past is always attractive because it is drained of fear.”
Thomas Carlyle
Living in the present is the instant perception of beauty and the great delight in it without seeking pleasure from it.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
Fear - one may be frightened of tomorrow, or many tomorrows, because it’s calculated from the image of past. Fear of past is drained, there is no more past to live in; it is present or future as coming up. What is the relationship of fear to time, to thought?
Someone has done something in the past, hurt you, and the past is time. The future is time. The present is time.
we must enquire very seriously, closely, hesitantly, into this question: is time a factor?
Have a good job now, I may lose it tomorrow, I'm frightened.
Ethical principles have been at the base of the history of the politics of the Left-human rights supposedly right in there.But, at present, a sector of the Left has proposed accommodating, abandoning many of these principles in favor of a proposition its proponents call pragmatic
they abandon the defense and struggle for dignity and for distributional justice. . It is better to stay silent, they say. So there is no will to forcefully demand social and political responsibilities.
-The formation of our respective political identity is ultimately a lot more complicated than what is implied in the oft-assumed trajectory from youthful (transcendental?) idealism to hard-headed (less transcendental?) maturity. (Luke Savage)
If you truly love your daughter - do not teach her that her dreams and desires are fulfilled by the presence of a man in her life; Teach her that her support in this life is her intellect, her scientific degree and her financial independence
- a man comes as an addition to share her ambitions, glories and dreams - and if he is an obstacle, he must be amputated from her life; Life is not dependent on him.
If you really love your daughter - you will be a defender of her dignity and freedom to make her personal decisions without paying attention to the opinion of the backward society - do not let backward customs and traditions destroy your relationship with your daughter