Jonathan Kearney

#education and #love …
Paulo Freire claims that ‘dialogue cannot exist in the absence of a profound love for the world and for people . . . Love is at the same time the foundation of dialogue and dialogue itself’.
Pedagogy of the oppressed 1970

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In ‘All about love: new visions.’ (2000) bell hooks uses takes psychiatrist M. Scott Peck’s definition of love as a starting point, where he defines love as ‘the will to extend one’s self for the purpose of nurturing one’s own or another’s spiritual growth.’

Thoughts on #education and #love …
and… ‘the moment we choose to love we begin to move towards freedom, to act in ways that liberate ourselves and others’. bell hooks - Love as the Practice of Freedom 1994

Thoughts on #education and #love …
‘Without love, our efforts to liberate ourselves and our world community from oppression and exploitation are doomed.’ … bell hooks - Love as the Practice of Freedom 1994

UK’s unhealthy food habits cost £268bn a year, report finds Exclusive: Food, Farming and Countryside Commission added up cost to NHS and economy of diet-linked disease

Astonishing but not surprising- and the author said: “£268bn is a very, very conservative estimate of these costs.”

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On our tendency to (creative) destruction About five years ago, when I was around 39¾, I had an overwhelming desire to blow up this blog. The idea was that, on my 40th birthday, visitors would be met with a mushroom cloud instead of writin…

Move along. Nothing to see here.

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