#occupy edu

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Scholarslip: A documentary about the student debt crisis (by JAT3productions)

Many Occupy Education followers make cameos in this film! Share with your networks! Important film!

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Be part of Documentary of Student Loan Debt

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Whether I shall be the hero of my school life, or whether that station will be held by anyone else I cannot tell. All I can say is I am Devoted and Dedicated to my education. That is WHY I OCCUPY!

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I Occupy Education because they say we don't CARE. We proved them all wrong with Occupy High!

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- Ive seen locked doors open due to my education 

- I want to see money equally distributed to ALL schools, no matter that location of the institution or the race of the student body.

- innovatively injecting education into the minds of the youth will cripple "the cycle"

- We live in a society where operating without one is extremely dangerous

- I want my kids and all their friends to be contributing members of society 

- Ignorance is not bliss, more like poison.

- If we all occupied education"their" efforts in oppressing us would be a lot more strenuous on their behalf. 

I OCCUPY EDUCATION 

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I occupy education so that all children will one day be healthy, well nourished, are part of a community, and that their gifts are celebrated!

1 in 4 hungry children in New Mexico

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Occupy Education: School should be a time and place for students to discover and become themselves. At the same time, they should learn to become contributing members of something bigger than themselves: A classroom community, a group of friends, a family, a neighborhood, a polis.

As educators, therefore we must aspire toward building classroom communities around this ideal: where each person is encouraged to grow and thrive in harmony with others.

See my blog post:  Part I -- "Education is political":  The people and the polis .

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I occupy education because:

The big picture is being shattered into smaller and smaller pieces.

We need less competition and more cooperation—now more than ever.

The labels we assign to students (and other people) become our blinders.

Learning “disabilities” may actually be wonderful gifts.

We become less human the more we allow ourselves to be measured, tracked, and reduced to bits of data.

Teachers and students are not robots.

Imagination—not productivity—is the engine of human progress.

“Normal” is a myth. Diversity is the truth.

Humanity will not survive the future without demonstrating compassion, curiosity, respect, and cooperation.

We can do better. We must.

Read the full manifesto here: ‘Disabled’ Students and Forgotten Frontiers: A Manifesto for All of Us.