First Make a Revolution*
To be revolutionary teachers and learners, we must first make a revolution in education.
To a gathering of medical students and health workers on August 19 of 1960 (in Che Guevera Talks to Young People*), just shortly following the August 6 decree expropriating the property of major U.S. corporations in Cuba, he urged that the isolated effort, the individual effort, the purity of ideals, the desire to sacrifice an entire lifetime to the nobelist of ideals -- all that is for naught if the effort is made alone, solitary in some corner of the world, fighting against conditions that are most often hostile and oppressing and permit no progress. A revolution, he says needs what they had in Cuba, an entire people who were mobilized, who have learned the practice of unity by coming together through shared struggle in both victory and loss.
To a gathering of medical students and health workers on August 19 of 1960 (in Che Guevera Talks to Young People*), just shortly following the August 6 decree expropriating the property of major U.S. corporations in Cuba, he urged that the isolated effort, the individual effort, the purity of ideals, the desire to sacrifice an entire lifetime to the nobelist of ideals -- all that is for naught if the effort is made alone, solitary in some corner of the world, fighting against conditions that are most often hostile and oppressing and permit no progress. A revolution, he says needs what they had in Cuba, an entire people who were mobilized, who have learned the practice of unity by coming together through shared struggle in both victory and loss.
Are Teachers Activists? No. Not inherently. Spending a couple of years after college teaching black and brown kids math, helping recent immigrants learn English, and marginally increasing the number of poor kids who passthe test are not radical acts, even though some may lead you to believe that its the "blueprint for the new Civil