Tag: pl
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Weaponised Conceit and Gatekeeping in Education
I am not a petty person. Disorganised? A lot. Careless? Ask my wife. Loud, exuberant and opinionated? Is this blog not a clue? But petty? Not at all. I don’t think I have harboured any jealousy since I was a teenager, as ignorant as I was about how hard a life in a committed relationship…
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Keeping more in the larder…
A person recently said that for the system to work, a person has to be subjected to some sort of exploitation. There is no profit without exploitation. It is in the best interest of the Capitalist to keep what profits are generated by the labor of the employee away from these in order to maximize…
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“Illum il-festa tagħna!”
Festa season and I have a…complicated relationship Don’t get me wrong; as I have stated before, I used to hate it but I have warmed up to the idea. There are many aspects of it that I have grown to appreciate; within the concept of the traditional Maltese Festa sit most of the best and…
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Lest We Forget
Flowers on a monument are meaningless. A monument is meaningless if the events are not remembered.Here is a story that should ring familiar; prices for living were going ridiculously high, especially to cater for conflicts, not of our own. Wages were frozen, and the excess profits were hoarded by those who hold the keys to…
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Woke Awoke
Time to roll your eyes, people. So many words are being thrown around willynilly like they mean something to divide people hither and thither. Titles, flags, oh Lord, make it stop. Sure it helps to identify people. But if only we stopped at that. I define myself as a socialist, among many other things. But…
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The Wheels on the Bus…
Of all countries in the Mediterranean, had it not been due to our lack of size I would think that looking at our history, we have the least reason not to empathize with foreign nationals or at least not to be welcoming. At least with those not trying to actively colonize us, but I digress.…
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Sectoral Agreement Woes and Whoas
The meeting regarding the sectoral agreement for educators in Malta is fast approaching and my fellow educators and I have already started working ourselves up. Without a shadow of a doubt, a lot of the discourse started floating around wage raises and finances, and numbers of which I have so far made it absolutely clear…
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The Powerless Educator, part 2
A powerless educator is an unhappy and unhealthy educator. This is not to say that an educator should enjoy absolute freedom; that is a privilege that nobody in reality has or should have. There is freedom for, and freedom to, and a delicate balance in between that cannot realistically be broken without unfortunate consequences. But…
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“Guns don’t kill people…”
I am horrified by what happened in Texas and all the other arguments surrounding it. Now I will not pretend to be an expert on the American context. First off, as a friend of mine perfectly put it earlier this week, the “American context” is moreover a state-by-state reality rather than a single monolith as…
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