In the United States, we should name no more public schools after presidents or military generals (General Smedley Butler, author of War is a Racket, might be the exception). We should encourage neighbors in a neighborhood school district to create and name their own schools through a democratic process, possibly electing their own neighborhood school board.
Here are famous quotes from other notable educators besides John Taylor Gatto: Paulo Freire, John Holt, E.D. Hirsch, Jr., Jonathan Kozol, and Diane Ravitch.
Our nation will be great when we make the world great--when we start healing the planet.
Nations will be great when they make the world great--when they start healing the planet.
Each nation will be great when it makes the world great--when it finds inner healing and spreads joy throughout the world.
Encouraging and empowering neighbors in every elementary school district throughout the world to form intentional communities could potentially be a very effective way to improve local, national, and international relationships.
Moreover, in the United States, we could reorganize state governments, not from the top-down, but from the bottom-up in this manner: The Elementary School District Empowerment System: Reorganizing State Governments from the Bottom-Up: From the Elementary School District (which would also be a Voting Precinct District) to the Township Level, to the County Level, Up to the State Level
When I was growing up in the '50s and '60s, my friends and I traversed the neighborhood by foot or bicycle every day, and we knew who lived in every house. But the times have changed since then. Neighborhoods today have become depersonalized. Encouraging and empowering neighbors to have control over neighborhood schools could be one of the antidotes for the ills of modern society. I am not sure what John Taylor Gatto would say about the idea of neighborhood control of neighborhood schools, but for me, it's an idea that I started believing in many years ago in the early days of my teaching career.
A network of intentional vegan communities all over the world could heal the planet and save the world.
All the problems began when the world, out of fear, became organized from the top-down. With love, we can rebuild the world from the bottom-up--from the grassroots of every neighborhood and nation up to a truly democratic world government created by the citizens of the world--to disempower the fast ensnaring, top-down control of the Great Reset, the new normal, of the New World Order.
Roger Copple was a high school special education teacher of Algebra and English and after that a general education 3rd-grade teacher. He retired in 2010 at age 60. His website World Without Empire.com contains articles he has written about spiritual politics. The website also shares links to information about yoga philosophy, mindfulness meditation, and Near-Death Experiences.
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