Myles Horton and Paolo Freire start with their preference for combined theory and practice, then argue for teaching that situates curriculum in social context. “Ideas” explores the intersection between politics and education. Don’t miss the rich comments on chapters 1+2, and Adam Croom’s great post on those chapters. To read previous posts and comments about this reading, including explanations of what we’re up to, click here. In this post I’ll offer a summary of the reading, followed by some reflections and discussion questions. In this post we can discuss chapter 3, “Ideas”. That doesn't mean I have to impose my ideas on people, but it means I have a responsibility to provide whatever light I can on the subject and share my ideas with people.Welcome to our book club’s ongoing reading of We Make the Road by Walking. There's no right I could claim that anybody else in the world can't claim, and I have to fight for their exercising that right just like I have to fight for my own. I have no rights that everybody else doesn't have. You honestly say these are my ideas and I have a right to my opinion, and if I have a right to my opinion then you have a right to your opinion.
Sharing it with them is one thing, but trying to impose it is another. And I think it's ineffective to try to impose that on anybody. Whatever you have to contribute has a social dimension. It's unavoidable that you have some responsibility, it seems to me, regardless of what you teach or what your subject is or what your skill is. If the Pentagon is using your discoveries, that's not your problem. You say you're neutral in what you do, you aren't that concerned with it. And that of course means that you've surrendered to the strongest forces. If you make people knowledgeable about these sciences and don't point out this fact, then you're saying, I withdraw from the battle, from the discussion of the ethics involved.
Science could be used by whoever has the power to use it and desire to use it. “There's no science that can't be used for good or for evil.
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