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“Education in nonviolence, tolerance, pure resolution, cooperative, learning, and politically correct curriculum- all of which will modify the behavior of American children, so they will be like the above communist Chinese children- is taking place in American schools in 1999.“

“… prison inmates are protected from subjection to behavior, modification techniques and workers and government office are protected from subjection to training programs which are violations of their religious liberties, but prohibition of the use of behavior, modification techniques on normal, American school children is nonexistence.“

“Setting off boundaries is thus an imitation of God’s creative act… This explains why forming boundaries must be done with care, Justice, and prayer, and it shows why the Bible weren’t against setting aside ancient boundary stones.”

“There can be no conscientiization without denunciation of unstructured, a thing that cannot be expected of the right. Nor can there be a popular conscientization for domination. The rights invents new forms of cultural action only for domination.“

“Only Praxis in the context of communion makes ‘conscientization’ a viable project. Concentration is a joint project and that it takes place in a man among other men, men, united by their action and by the reflection upon the action and upon the world. Thus men together achieve the state of perceptive clarity that Goldman calls ‘the maximum of potential consciousness beyond real consciousness’.“

‘He dreamt of a new man being born in the experience of liberation. In this sense, Guevara incarnated the authentic revolutionary utopia. He was one of the great prophets of the silent ones of the Third World. Conversant with many of them, he spoke on behalf of all of them.“

“In the same spirit of communion, Rivera‘s gorilla encampment served as a theoretical context in which he and his companions together analyze the concrete events. They were living through and playing their strategy of their action… He justified gorilla warfare as an introduction to freedom, as a call to life to those who are the living dead.“

“Che Guevara is an example of the unceasing witness revolutionary leadership gives to dialogue with the people… That anyone who wants to become a true revolutionary must be in communion with the people.“

“Indeed, although forgotten today, both swords mentioned by Bernard our reference to Luke, 22:38 where Christ told his disciples that ‘two swords’ are ‘enough.’ For pre-modern theologian, this was Christ way of legitimizing two forms of warfare.- one with the spiritual sword against spiritual enemies, and one with the physical sword against physical enemies.“

“If it’s acceptable to fiend off Satan’s fire darts against the soul, why is it not acceptable to fight off the enemies of Christianity, who hated Christians, not just with fiery darts, but with swords, spears, and cruelty unbounded?”

“The social order to which he and Smith belonged was held together by deliberately depriving most people of information they needed to maximize opportunities. If secrets were promiscuously distributed, the ladders of privilege would collapse, their own children would be plunged back into the common stew. It was unthinkable.”

“When you believe in determinism-biological, psychological, and sociological, or theological (and schools believe in all those in various times and places), the very idea of feedback leading to growth must be held at arms length.”

Quote from the first month of my teaching career of 30 years, I realize that intellectual Power, creative, insight, and good character we’re being diminished in my classroom and that indeed I have been hired for precisely that purpose. I was a clerk and a vast penitentiary; the rules and procedures where the guards.”

“… School is not a good place for your kids.”

“The principal reason bureaucracies are so stupid as they cannot respond efficiently to feedback. Think of school management, compelled by law to follow. The rules made long ago and far away.-as if human situations are so formula they can be codified.“

“… A few of the best classes… were to be held to a traditional standard. As for the others, the mass of fairly well-behaved kids was mixed with an infusion of violent, restless, disruptive students until only a primitive level of instruction was possible… b/c reasonably patient children became angry at a teacher’s ineffectiveness in maintaining order, many of the polite kids joined the destructors too.”

“The degree of disrespect our nation has assigned its ordinary population wouldn’t be possible unless somewhere in the command centers it hadn’t been decided that common men and women should be stripped of any power to Rebel and that they could be lied to without compunction, because their dignity didn’t count. Or their lives.“

“In the thousands of hours, I’ve spent in teachers rooms and teachers meetings, not a single soul beside yourself was open to discussing anything profound about our notions of pedagogy, nothing that could get them in trouble. Shirli that intellectual vacuum says something terrible about the business, which has swallowed up your life in my own.“

“The steep decline in common prosperity over 90 years of intense for schooling, drove both parents from the home to work, depositing their children and the man systems of daycare and extended schooling. Despite a century long herring that schooling is the cure for an evenly spread wealth, exactly the reverse occurred. Wealth was 250% more concentrated at centuries and then edit to beginning.“

‘Goddard believed, standardized test scores used as a signal for privileged treatment would cause the lower classes to come face-to-face, with their own biological inferiority. It would be like wearing a public dense cap. Exactly the function ‘special education’ delivers today.”