Originally published: September 16, 2010
I want to try to explore what
education is, what it can constitute, and what it can obstruct as well.
Yes, the thing we call education can be just as much a liberator as it
can be an oppressor. I wish I blogged more about my experience in Watts
and Compton and the Los Angeles area in general about educational
inequalities. Alas, I was busy being a student myself.
Now I am at the other
end in another world. And now that I have nearly a year of surveying
what education is in the Occupied Territories, perhaps I can draw some
parallels and throw in some research.
I include the above
picture because it blatantly contrasts groups or ideologies or even
approaches. We can call this pedagogy, any fancy word really. Here you
see one of nine civil rights activists, a black woman walking with books
in hand. You see angry white women. You see men meant to enforce law or
protection or order in the backdrop, along with other civilian men.
