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DESCRIPTION:Occupy Forum continues. . .\nMonday, October 28th 6 - 9 pm at Global 
 Exchange\n\nInformation, discussion & community! Monday Night 
 Forum!!\n\nOccupy Forum is an opportunity for open and respectful dialogue 
 on all sides of these critically important issues!\n\nOccupy Forum 
 presents\nSchooling for Oppression/Education for Freedom\n\nHave you ever 
 found yourself wondering why people vote against their own best interest? 
 Why more folks aren't outraged about the state of our world? Why real 
 political discourse is absent from our culture? Could it be something that 
 we learned in school? What are you actually supporting if you say you 
 support public education? A critical look at the real lessons of compulsory 
 schooling sheds some light on these questions. Join us to hear about the 
 history of school in America# from the establishment of the English 
 colonies to the present*, and to explore some alternatives. Anne Donjacour, 
 a regular Forum participant, autodidact, and homeschooling parent will make 
 a case that early 20th century industrialists engineered the system of 
 forced schooling that we have today. This system of schooling has created a 
 docile population of workers and consumers who have traded their 
 independent thinking and liberty for a fossil fuel-driven materialist 
 society. Alternatives to compulsion schooling exist. A panel of teens and 
 adults from San Francisco Homeschoolers will talk about the reasons that 
 they opted out of the school system and how this decision has affected 
 their lives and their role in the community.\n\n\n\n#Based on John Taylor 
 Gatto's An Underground History of American Education\n\n*a caveat and 
 apology: this presentation will be focusing on the European colonizers of 
 the continent and omitting Native ways of education due to the ignorance of 
 the presenter, and is not a reflection of the importance of indigenous ways 
 of learning and teaching.\n\n"There is no school equal to a decent home and 
 no teacher equal to a virtuous parent"\nMahatma Gandhi\n\n\nTime will be 
 allotted for Q&A, discussion and announcements.\n\nDonations to Occupy 
 Forum to cover costs are encouraged; no one turned away!\n\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/10/27/18745501.php
SUMMARY:Occupy Forum: Schooling for Oppression/Education for Freedom
LOCATION:Global Exchange\n2017 Mission Street\nSan Francisco, CA\nnear the 16th 
 Street BART Station\n
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/10/27/18745501.php
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