my notes and spews while watching "schooling the world"

1. cultural myopia
2. human monoculture
3. urban consumer culture

things fall apart - chinua achebe
the pearl

echoing in my mind

http://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/schooling_the_world_2010/#.VCxHbXKW_Tg.facebook

the traditional forms of knowledge fostered sustainability

in the Modern economy and with the modern educational system, children learn nothing about that (their local surroundings) but instead their learn essentially corporate products in an urban consumer culture
Helena norberg-hodge (international society for ecology and culture)

-> teach you to become a buyer

cultural anthropology tweaked me in college

17:16-> 17:59

western education has grown over the last few centuries especially with the rise of industrialization: (is to produce) elements to feed into an industrial production system...they were PRODUCTS with partial knowledge. we move from wisdom to knowledge and now we are moving from knowledge to information and that information is so partial that we are creating incomplete human beings.

-vandana shiva navdanya, research foundation for science, technology and ecology.

An inspector calls
things fall apart -chinua achebe
the pearl

i love Allah and I love every book Allah threw into my path

i don't regret every moment being a weirdo literature stream student who yeah envied the clever science students and also the accounts class students who seemed to get the chance to do more paintings. i don't regret every day I walked slowly under the trees so that i can crush the dry leaves beneath my feet. I don't regret taking the long way to college so that i can take the LRT and watch the clouds from the train window.

oh dear mama, now I understand why everything happened. why I got into FOE. why Allah gave me Adni as my friend.

colonial india

malaysia, my dear malaysia. how are you different?

20:09 - scary.

"education for all" backed by big corporations, etc. what does it mean to be part of mainstream?

education and economy!

who really benefits when every child on the planet is educated the same way? - question posed
COMPANIES WHO SELL THINGS TO HELP YOU WITH YOUR DEPRESSION.

i believe in, really observing movies and art. i really do.

engineer and doctor and PHD?

I will go to the earth and learn by hook or by crook learn how to sow and reap and know each fish by their scales and cook and eat them and return to the earth and skies satisfied.

for Allah's sake, connect the dots and look at the really big freaking picture!!!!

They speak english with an indian accent, they look in fact very "malay" (which I will now strongly believe to just be a race that is a mixture of all races you have in this world.)

i want to buy plain white t-shirts or thawbs or dresses for my children and write on it with fabric ink: do not feed this child growing up formula or he/she will never set foot into your house ever again as long as i live. wallahi.

syadid percentage: 20000%

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the bottom line is, don't be pawns in the game. don't purposely close your mind and choose to be ignorant.

300 years of "research" in "M" faculty VS 10000000000 years of wisdom?
give me homebirth any time!
good intentions?

i will import midwives.