Dear Reader,
We are students, teachers, workers, community members,
friends, and family; we are the oppressed and the privileged.
We are the people, and we no longer consent to an education
system that teaches us to compete with each other; an education system that
commodifies knowledge, denying the existence of multiple truths, and multiple ways
of knowing.
Education, in its current institutional form, separates us
along lines of class, gender, race, sexuality, able-bodiedness, and the
‘gifted’ from the ‘slow’. It imposes a singular way of thinking that denies
culture, and community. In short, it conforms us to the work force.
What do
you remember from school? What languages were you allowed? Whose history did
you study? What’s an IQ test? Who graduates university?
We no longer consent to this narrow concept of knowledge and
of being. We are breaking free from the invisible shackles of neoliberal
education.
We believe that the only way to break free, is to make
visible the illusions: question truth, knowledge, power, and ourselves.
Won’t you
join us on this journey of liberation?
