Tuesday, December 28, 2010

from Kathleen

Clipped from www.yesmagazine.org

Reclaiming Our Freedom to Learn

















by

Gustavo Esteva



posted Nov 07, 2007











Read this article in Spanish. Lea este artículo en español

 





















A primary school in the Zapatista village of Oventic, the southern state of Chiapas, Mexico. Photo by Aaron Cain.




A primary school in the Zapatista village of Oventic, the southern state of Chiapas, Mexico.
Photo by Aaron Cain.


Years ago, we started to observe in villages and barrios, particularly among indigenous peoples, a radical reaction against education and schools. A few of them closed their schools and expelled their teachers. Most of them avoided this type of political confrontation and started instead to just bypass the school,

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