moniquill:

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How will schools tackle the subject of the riots? | Education | guardian.co.uk

teachersworldwide:

How will schools tackle the subject of the riots? We ask four headteachers how their schools are planning to respond to the riots that took place earlier this month.

[TRIPOLI, Libya] Boys and girls chanted slogans against Moammar Gadhafi and teachers hanged an effigy of the fugitive leader Saturday as many Libyan children started their first school year without the “brother leader” dictating the curriculum.


Euphoria filled the halls, but teachers admitted a lot needed to be done to overhaul an educational system where a main goal for nearly 42 years was to instill adoration of Gadhafi and what he touted as the greatest system of rule in the world — the “Jamahiriya,” a utopian “rule by the masses” that in reality boiled down to rule by Gadhafi.

Imagine an education system that starts with questions, not from knowledge that needs to be imparted.