So I’ll start by talking here.
about a love letter from Ademar Bogo in which he talks about education.
It goes something like this:
that to educate comes from the Latin “to draw from within”;
but the matter and the elements for education come from outside.
These things when they are out,
when they enter,
they become consciousness
and when they leave, they should at least transform themselves into actions.
So taking out is an illustrative gesture.
It is taken from within consciousness first what is sought.
For this reason, education has a valid function for all life,
which is to awaken the sleeping actions
and take from within us actions of rebellion and restlessness
so that we do not settle.
When you invited me to come here to talk about education,
the first thing I did, was to talk to a history teacher,
my friend, and see some lectures about it.
In this, we noticed how much is spoken
in how the current model of education does not work.
But what is to succeed? And they want it to work for what?
One such high school reform, or explicitly that it works
for labor market training.
Form cheap labor.
I, like the crew of occupations,
I also think that the current model of education does not work,
but our idea of going well is quite different.
For us, studying goes far beyond getting a job,
to make money to consume without stopping
and continue to sustain the structures of this system.
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We expect that education, that relationship with knowledge,
be a way for us to find out about the world and find out about society,
and not to reproduce it,
but to consciously participate in its transformations.
But in the society in which we live, to want that is to be a danger,
and increasingly, we see being treated with bombs and gags
who is fighting for this kind of “dangerous” education;
who cares about an education that helps to think, to problematize,
and that uses the sciences to deconstruct prejudices,
is suffering retribution, is suffering persecution,
and are having laws built against them.
Not that it is any novelty the laws do not aim at a good for the working class,
but they want to make it impossible for major issues
be discussed at school.
School is an environment in which we spend a lot of time in our lives,
being there our first relations with other individuals.
So it should be there that we learn to deal
with these other individuals and, above all, respect them
within each individuality.
But so, in the occupations, when we talked
on these issues of our daily life, which were often debated,
we respected all our thoughts because we think and agree,
that all people have different knowledges
and none of these knowledge is more or less important than the other.
There was a guy who had thought that long ago,
and it is recognized internationally, but within that crazy juncture
in which we are living, even he is being persecuted.
This guy is Paulo Freire, and he said …
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that education does not change the world, education changes people,
and people change the world.
He also thought that the student is not a deposit in which the teacher
He has to dump things, and he has to absorb everything.
He believed, just like me,
that the student and the teacher have to work together
and learn new possibilities,
and discover new things in life;
and he viewed education as a liberating pedagogy.
All this may seem utopian, but I’m not alone,
and the occupations showed me that.
Utopias are what help us to walk,
because even without knowing where we are going,
help us to move on.
I wanted to dedicate this speech to everyone, everyone and “everyone” …
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who still walk and build this utopia with me
and who struggle for an education,
for a more just society,
and who suffer reprisal for occupying the spaces
who are trying to get us out:
people who fight.
Thank you.
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