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.
Sep 1, 2021 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
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;
Sep 1, 2021 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
“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?
Sep 1, 2021 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
حليم باغي
سرمدي گيتي منصور جو همنشان هن جي نالي کان ڏڪندڙ منات ۽ عذا
هن سان لشڪر خزاني سان راڪش لڙيا هن چيو مون لاءِ ڪافي آ منهنجو خدا
هن زماني جي کوٽي روايت ڀڳي هن چيو ماڻهو ماڻهو آ يزدان نه آ
سر خدا جي اڳيان جو جھڪي سو جھڪي ٻيو پرستش جي لائق انسان نه آ
1)
هن جي ڏينهن ۾ سفيد پڳڙيون ٻڌهل اهل_تسبيع به ها اهل_تقوا به ها
بت پرستي سان اٽڪڻ جي جرت نه هئي اهل_منسب به ها رڻ جا جوڌها به ها
هڪڙو مرد_قلندر صفا ناتوا جنهن جي دستار ڦاٽل ۽ ليرون هئي
جنهن جي ڪپڙن تي چتيون ۽ پيوند ها جان تانن جي تيرن سان سيرون به هئي
2)
Aug 30, 2021 • 29 tweets • 4 min read
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.
Aug 10, 2021 • 26 tweets • 5 min read
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.
Aug 9, 2021 • 9 tweets • 8 min read
Peoples are usually described as indigenous when they maintain traditions or other aspects of an early culture that is associated with a given region. #IndigenousPeoplesDay#WeAreIndigenousOfIndus
Adopted substantial elements of a colonizing culture, historically associated with a specific territory on which they depend, loss of cultural parameters. #IndigenousPeoplesDay#WeAreIndigenousOfIndus
Change takes years, consists of many very small victories, contains concessions at every stage, and is accompanied by many humiliating ups & downs. This sounds very "unromantic" and that's the point.
The only way to achieve the change we need is to change our understanding of how change actually happens. Work in development is about change. And change brings conflict, pain, confusion. Only out of this emerges a new understanding.
Jul 25, 2021 • 18 tweets • 3 min read
Until lions have their own historians, hunting stories will continue to glorify hunters. (African proverb)
For people fighting other’s damn wars there are no winners or losers; just survivors. But be it as it may, glory has always gone to the victors; political history shows us that. (David Baldacci, The Whole Truth)
Jul 17, 2021 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
My today's take from a notebook "At puberty, the elements of an unsuperstitious sexual morality ought to be taught. Boys and girls should be taught that nothing can justify sexual intercourse unless there is mutual inclination...
Boys and girls should be taught respect for each other's liberty; they should be made to feel that nothing gives one human being rights over another, and that jealousy and possessiveness kill love.
