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the other way of knowing
by Lilian Na'ia Alessa
"My grandmother spoke no English and went about her tasks singing. She sang to things I couldn’t see,
to stones and water..."
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"My grandmother spoke no English and went about her tasks singing. She sang to things I couldn’t see,
to stones and water..."
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to hell with good intentions
by Ivan Illich
"Next to money and guns, the third largest North American export is the U.S. idealist, who turns up in every theater of the world..."
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"Next to money and guns, the third largest North American export is the U.S. idealist, who turns up in every theater of the world..."
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education is ignorance
an interview with Noam Chomsky
"Mass education was designed to turn independent farmers into docile, passive tools of production. That was its primary purpose. And don't think people didn't know it...."
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"Mass education was designed to turn independent farmers into docile, passive tools of production. That was its primary purpose. And don't think people didn't know it...."
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do indigenous peoples benefit from ‘development’?
by Stephen Corry
"We need to think about whether development brings any benefits to those who are largely self-sufficient -- like many of the world's 150 million tribal people.
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"We need to think about whether development brings any benefits to those who are largely self-sufficient -- like many of the world's 150 million tribal people.
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