Category: education
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The Embryo Obsession
I must admit that I am rather…puzzled…by this motion. On the one hand, I know for a fact on a human level, especially given a few recent experiences, that I would not rest easy knowing that somewhere on this island – or wherever, I have no idea how this works – someone is poking around…
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For Sale!
Are you for sale? Your knee-jerk answer from a perfectly sane person would be a resounding “no.” After all, we are people with integrity, that have a fixed identity, or so we say; we would not compromise or what have you to no force on heaven or hell and anything in between. But the truth…
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Valletta, City of (Multi)Culture…
Ironically most racist people start their racist remarks by outlining that they are “NOT racist but…” What is being said in this post by a certain Maltese citizen is that they are disappointed to hear African music at the city gates of the Maltese Capital City. Of course without going into the why that person…
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Your Own History, Now at Bargain Price!
It is very understandable that especially with the products and technologies involved to preserve historical sites, especially within a capitalist context, maintaining a place such as this would cost quite a hefty amount of money. Being manned by the public sector, however, maintenance at the Hypogeum is government-funded and therefore paid by our taxes; asking…
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Fiction as a Scalpel for Reality
The world we live in has its own myth; myth does not mean something which is intrinsically false, but in the sense held by Roland Barthes, a means of signification that leads or takes over reality. The myth of the world can be divided into fact and fiction – the actual, what has been experienced,…
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Pro-Conscience
The more I learn about these things the more I realize what’s “left” and what’s “right” is steadily more subjective according to the realities of what the parties representing want rather than representing a specific belief. I define myself as a leftist, but as stated elsewhere, not a leftist according to the American sensibilities. It…
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“Cut Here”
I love this image; It is highly symbolic of how what we are asked to see instead of needing to see changes everything. That is the danger of agenda. To name two. Conservative entities, traditionalists, will hunker down and insist that “their belief” is the only belief system that should be espoused by the system,…
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Holding the Standard….
Those who do not work in education would not know that the situation is far from good, (perhaps even because we are afraid to complain about it publicly for one reason or another) and this is not the fault of the children in it, and very often not of the schools themselves, some of who…
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Inclusion Is…
Inclusion is not a trophy for participating. Inclusion is not just representation. Inclusion is not hand-waving your presence that you are there. Inclusion is not having pity Inclusion is not putting other identities down in order to promote yours. Inclusion is not an unfair advantage over the others. Inclusion is not dumbing down everything so…
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I Do Not Understand…
Some of the best debates can be found online nowadays; anything on the Big Conversation, Slavoj Zizek vs Jordan Peterson, Sri Ravishankar vs Dr. Zakir Naik… I love following these. It allows me to gain a deeper understanding of the world and the varied perspectives that inhabit it as they relate to the other denizens.…
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