too kewl 4 skool.

today i spent four and a half hours
at a local coffee shop 'working' on
my philosophy of education paper--

i managed to get nothing typed and
have no idea how i am going to
pull this whole thing off---

in the mean time i revamped my
blog and read my monthly love
forecast thanks to my daily tarot
and horoscope e-mails--

yeah, i got my priorities straight.
here are some words worth pondering;

"... The objects which surround me are simply accessible to my consciousness, not located within it. I am aware of them, but they are not inside me. It follows logically from the banking notion of the consciousness that educator's role is to regulate the way the word 'enters into' the students. The teacher's task is to organize a process which already occurs spontaneously, to 'fill' the students by making deposits of information which he or she considers to constitute true knowledge. And since people 'receive' the world as passive entities, education should make them more passive still, and adapt them to the world. The educated individual is the adapted person, because she or he is better 'fit' for the world. Translated into practice, this concept is well suited to the purpose of the oppressors, whose tranquility rests on how well people fit the world the oppressors have created, and how little they question it. The more completely the majority adapt to the purposes which the dominant minority prescribe for them (thereby depriving them of the right to their own purposes), the more easily the minority can continue to prescribe....

...Oppression--overwhelming control--is necrophilic; it is nourished by love of death, not life. The banking concept of education, which serves the interest of oppression, is also necrophilic. Based on a mechanistic, static, naturalistic, spatialized view of consciousness, it transforms students into receiving objects. It attempts to control thinking and action, leads women and men to adjust to the world, and inhibits their creative power."

--Paulo Freire
"Pedagogy of the Oppressed"