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The role of education is to awaken the young to the consciousness
of their responsibilities. It is the coming generations whose
task it will be to strengthen international organizations and
ensure their growth.
Now, all geographical studies reveal the
following undeniable truths:
Education and peace
1. In order to live and to improve their standards of living,
men are engaged in a struggle with, or against, nature. To
be sure, conditions vary according to the regions involved,
but the adventure and the efforts made are common to all
and, to a greater or a lesser degree, benefit all mankind.
2. No free, peaceful nation can any longer be self-sufficient. To
live and to prosper, they all stand in need of one another.
3. Thanks to science and to technology the Earth has now assumed
human proportions (that is why man, today, has
launched out into the conquest of space). The achievement
of the economic and political organization of the world may
now be conceived as close at hand, bringing benefit to all.
Resistance from the family
Parents, on the other hand, are deeply concerned about the
different measures which are gradually eroding their freedom
of choice: by means of guidance processes the school authorities
determine the type of studies for which a pupil is best suited,
and impose their decision on the parents ; the same authorities
establish school districts, beyond the boundaries of which parents
may not stray in favour of a school which they consider better
for their child. The last paragraph of Article 26 of the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights-‘ Parents have a prior right
to choose the kind of education that shall be given to their
children’-is thus set at naught. There is no doubt at all that,
in many countries, between 1948 and 1968, family rights have
been whittled down, while the power of the State has been
reinforced.
The drafters of the Universal Declaration were obsessed
by memories of Nazi and Fascist totalitarian methods, of State
control imposed upon little children of 7, of the brutal subjection
to which parents were submitted. If freedom was to be restored
it seemed imperative that the child should be wholly restored
to the family.
Since those days, things have indeed changed: we now face
the danger of being swamped by quantity; well-tried and trusted
methods are threatened by the complex nature of modern
society. The growing multitudes of the young must somehow
be regulated, in order that order and efficiency may be restored
to education, that individual aptitudes may be developed and that
economic and social needs may be met. In the same measure
as the duties, the responsibilities and the financial commitments
of the State increase, so must its control and its policies become
paramount.
For that matter, submission to administrative control is not
unavoidable. If they recoil in shock and horror when informed
that their child should be given a technical training-their
child whom they intended to send to one of the schools enjoying
most prestige, for education at the highest intellectual level-
parents can, in many countries, appeal against such a decision,
either by agreeing that their offspring should take the entrance
examinations for the institution of their choice, or by entering
him in a private school. These options provide no mean safetyvalves
against educational reforms put into effect by the State.
Parents are often blind, and control is not necessarily against
the child’s interest. But in such cases too it is preferable not to
force families’ hands, and rather to seek their acceptance of the
new systems imposed by the facts of life. Parent-teacher associations
can play a very useful part in this regard.
This explains why parents should be fully informed about
their children’s aptitudes, the direction in which they may best
be guided, the various openings for which this or that type of
studies may prepare. Th is can be achieved by the organization
of school and university guidance centres, and by increased
contacts between parents and teachers. The school has everything
to gain from closer acquaintance with the parents; the
parents stand to benefit from fuller knowledge of the problems
of the school.
Co-operation between school and family is on the increase;
and this co-operation will dissipate the apparent contravention
of Article 26.
P.S. The persons name is V, which is probably a reference to "below" or lower class. Also a reference to TPTB favorite idiom... "as above so below." .... but that is another post for the future.
Originally posted by Holly N.R.A.
reply to post by pianopraze
P.S. The persons name is V, which is probably a reference to "below" or lower class. Also a reference to TPTB favorite idiom... "as above so below." .... but that is another post for the future.
Thanks for sharing that little tid bit. This possibility of this as a future outcome, though, is only one scenario. Humans are in charge of their futures. What we do NOW is what shapes the future.
I do take exception with your use of "as above so below". This is NOT a favorite idiom of TPTB! It is, however used by those of us that believe everything is connected...and when situations are muddled as they are at this point in time....life is one big mirror.
btw: don't velieve that because the persons name is "V" means that she is lower class...
to each his own...
They breed for us a desolation, a land wherein no man dwelleth, nor any man pass
thereby."
Behold our desert which could rejoice and blossom; it has lured the stranger and seduced him in our midst. They come for violence! Their faces are closed up as for the last wind of Kralizec! They gather the captivity of the sand. They suck up the abundance of the sand, the treasure hidden in the depths. Behold them as they go forth to their evil work. It is written: 'And I stood upon the sand, and I saw a beast rise up out of that sand, and upon the head of that beast was the name of God!'
Originally posted by unityemissions
I honestly don't understand what is so wrong with the video.
If we are to live in a sustainable future, control mechanisms must be put in place. Obviously, the bulk of us are too stupid for our own good. That should be a given to anyone with half a brain.
Sorry, I just don't see what's so evil about any of this. I think you guys are stretching this.
Originally posted by ldyserenity
reply to post by pianopraze
Wel too bad for them we have two things they dont got Numbers, and Strength, because let me tell you, these skinny little nerds cannot fight their way out a wet paper-bag!!!!!!!!!!!!edit on 16-1-2011 by ldyserenity because: space bar X-(
Originally posted by DerepentLEstranger
reply to post by pianopraze
oh yeah, but forget methanol i read some where that in order to fill up a hummers gas tank one person in the world has to go without corn for a year and think about it burning food?
Originally posted by sligtlyskeptical
How would you all feel about this if part of the change was stripping all of their wealth, distributing it equally amongst the population and then instituting these actions? i think we need to move toward a more sustainable world. A world where hunger, poverty and war do not exist. In order to do this we need to be reigned in and forced to think less selfishly. It is against human nature to do so, so we need help. This world has enough to offer for all of us to live well and we need to get together on it sooner or later.
"get back in your pen you filthy animal"
Originally posted by sligtlyskeptical
How would you all feel about this if part of the change was stripping all of their wealth, distributing it equally amongst the population and then instituting these actions?
Originally posted by ldyserenity
Originally posted by sligtlyskeptical
How would you all feel about this if part of the change was stripping all of their wealth, distributing it equally amongst the population and then instituting these actions?
I would be fine with that if they also were to take themselves completely out of th equation, too...like off themselves... they are the ones stripping and bilking this land, they are immoral, they are monsters and they should die. Fact: If we were still on survival of the fittest, most of them would have perished along time ago, they are skinny, their genetics suck (just study how many wealthy folks have mentally challenged children) that's from inbreeding, oh and they think they are intelligent, I am quite inclined to let them know they are delusional!
Also methanol just needs any biomass. Cattails are a great source and they can be used to clean local water supplies without chemicals at the same time as providing biomass for creating methanol.