10 questions for those who teach and learn
By: Al Soci
Issue date: 5/5/09 Section: Opinion
9. The U.S. spends more than the rest of the world combined on military expenditures and continues to engage in acts of aggression that create both outrage across the world and a growing threat of WMD mass annihilation. Meanwhile millions of US children go hungry, the infrastructure collapses, homelessness escalates, schools are in disrepair, joblessness increases, and hope for a better future evaporates. How can we downsize spending on violence and destruction and upsize spending on creativity and development?
10. How do we overcome the "crisis of citizenship" in the US, i.e. how do we develop the tools, skills, knowledge, understanding, inspiration and commitment necessary to function as: empowered workers; critical inquirers willing to challenge the conventional wisdom, unpack dominant agendas, question assumptions, cultivate doubt, and hold power and authority accountable; involved and inclusive citizens; energized and informed social agents willing to take responsibility for and struggle over substantively democratic and public-oriented economic and political systems?
10. How do we overcome the "crisis of citizenship" in the US, i.e. how do we develop the tools, skills, knowledge, understanding, inspiration and commitment necessary to function as: empowered workers; critical inquirers willing to challenge the conventional wisdom, unpack dominant agendas, question assumptions, cultivate doubt, and hold power and authority accountable; involved and inclusive citizens; energized and informed social agents willing to take responsibility for and struggle over substantively democratic and public-oriented economic and political systems?