IMAGINE AN EDUCATION
WHERE YOU ARE THE MAIN CHARACTER
Nowadays education is forbidden.
Very few things which happen at school are truly important.
School then is not even a place for education, it's a big daycare centre.
They are nothing else but boring places.
Education keeps being the same
useful for culture to remain the same, to repeat itself.
WHERE TO LEARN IS TO LIVE And the things which matter aren't written in any notebook.
This, as it is now, is disrespectful!
What's the problem now?
Take some responsabity!
Wait a minute, Martin, because I know you.
And the student thinks that the only thing
he needs to do is to repeat, to repeat, to repeat
until it gets into his head.
Repeat
AC 3 metal
Nobody really learns if it is in a forced way, that’s not learning.
That is more like dog training.
That is not education.
WHERE TO LEARN IS TO CHOOSE How to face difficulties?
We don't know, we haven’t been taught.
Stop it, stop it! Mariela that's enough!
School has to be a place for experimentation
opened up to posibilities.
WHERE WE LEARN TOGETHER They teach us to be away from each other and
to compete over things which are not worth it.
Everybody speaks about peace
but nobody teaches for peace.
People teach for competition, and competing
is the beggining of any war.
WHERE TO LEARN IS TO RESPECT EACH OTHER Parents and teachers don't listen.
They never ask us what we think.
How do you think you will get into College?
Who told you I want to go to College?
There are parents that see their kid only one hour a day.
You passed all the classes, right?
Yes Mom.
How can we expect something beautiful out of that?
AN INVITATION TO BUILD They have no idea about what we feel, what we think
or what we want to do.
You will have to choose a profession.
You can't keep playing as a kid.
I think that today's teachers are the children of this system.
If you let them, you will lose authority.
They can't do whatever they want.
A DIFFERENT EDUCATION I think we have to think if we are paying attention or not
to what they say.
What they are saying is deep, it's no game.
704 COPRODUCERS A school where students don’t have to answer anyone.
Where each person can be theirself.
90 INTERVIEWS
There's no unique way,
just as no two children are identical.
what is goal of education?
To learn? To lean what? Concepts?
45 EDUCATION EXPERIENCES
Or to start developing human capacities?
8 COUNTRIES
Because of that, schools which pay more attention beat others
which serve society.
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Under those terms, every education
which seeks for something else, must be forbbiden.
"The Forbidden Educaition"
You can't learn about freedom in theory
and then go out of school and be free.
Kids have to be free at school.
13.08.12
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