“The ability to think, the ability to make the distinction between what you believe and what you know.” ~ Dr. Yosef Ben Jochannan
“Education is ALWAYS a political project. We’ve been fooled into thinking that the primary purpose of education is to secure a job, be “comfortable” or to obtain “things.” Wrong answers!
The purpose of education is to empower people to defend and advance themselves – to insure people’s survival and development, to equip people to solve problems and to socialize people to embrace and accept certain values and practices.
The educational system of the U.S. prepares us to: 1. Identify with and defend U.S. political and corporate interests (military, police, security). 2.Become a semi-skilled, underpaid and apolitical labor force. 3. Become professional overseers/managers of corporate interests. 4. Be apolitical completely or to only entertain “legitimate” methods of resistance (petitions, voting, courts marches, etc.). 5. Enrich and empower the very people/institutions that dominate us. Any serious attempt to create alternative curriculums and independent schools must effectively address these issues. Our education system must instill self-love, self-determination, self-defense, Black solidarity, cooperative economics, and the will and ability to dismantle the empire, free the land, and advance/protect our people…” ~ Agyei Tyehimba
1 – Dr. Barbara Sizemore – BLACK PEOPLE STILL DON’T GET IT
Every home should be a learning center, a deprogramming center, co-opted in intrinsic value not necessarily monetary.
Dr. Barbara Sizemore – BLACK PEOPLE STILL DON’T GET IT- (play list)
Public Education 4 Servitude
In the video above Dr. Amos Wilson brilliantly Lectures his black audience as to how the minority few European males define reality, through the changing of how words are defined, what intelligence is and by controlling the narrative, what is important, what is not and when. Dr, Amos, takes up the context of education and how it is used to enslave, not only African Americans, but the masses in general, the average European, as well as the whole of the western so called civilization, are dominated by the reality defined by this psychotic few to be correct.
Whose reality is real? Reality is subjective. Reality is shaped by one’s place in the world. To deny a person’s reality, is to deny their place in the world.
Source: Defining Reality: Public Education 4 Servitude 4 All
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In The Age of The Internet Ignorance is a Choice
12 Dozen Places To Educate Yourself Online For Free
All education is self-education. Period. It doesn’t matter if you’re sitting in a college classroom or a coffee shop. We don’t learn anything we don’t want to learn.
Those people who take the time and initiative to pursue knowledge on their own are the only ones who earn a real education in this world.
Take a look at any widely acclaimed scholar, entrepreneur or historical figure you can think of. Formal education or not, you’ll find that he or she is a product of continuous self-education.
If you’re interested in learning something new, this article is for you. Broken down by subject and/or category, here are several top-notch self-education resources I have bookmarked online over the past few years.
Note that some of the sources overlap between various subjects of education. Therefore, each has been placed under a specific subject based on the majority focus of the source’s content.
Source: In The Age of The Internet Ignorance is a Choice
Free Books and Reading Recommendations
LibraryThing – LibraryThing connects you to other people who are reading what you’re reading and allows you to see which books are popular in various categories of reading.
Textbook Revolution – Links to free online textbooks and other educational materials.
Book TV – This is the companion site to Book TV on C-Span2. The site holds some current interviews with authors, many past interviews, opinions, reviews, and featured programs through online video.
Bookboon – Bookboon provides online textbooks for students in PDF format. The free ebooks can be downloaded without registration. Our books are legal and written exclusively for Bookboon. They are financed by a few in-book ads.
Scribd – Scribd, the online document sharing site which supports Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF and other popular formats. You can download a document or embed it in your blog or web page.
BookYards – BookYards is a web portal in which books, education materials, information, and content will be freely to anyone who has an internet connection.
Planet eBook – Free classic literature to download and share.
E-Books Directory – Thousands of ebooks on various subjects to download and share.
Read Print Library – Free online books library for students, teachers, and the classic enthusiast.GoodReads – Get great book recommendations and keep track of what you want to read.
The Online Books Page – University of Pennsylvania database with over 30,000 books.
Public Literature – Thousands of familiar classics, children’s books, plays and poems, as well as books by new authors.
Full Books – Thousands of full-text nonfiction and fiction books.
Many Books – Free fiction and nonfiction ebooks for your PDA, iPod or ebook reader.
Get Free Books – Thousands of free ebooks to download.
Project Gutenberg – More than 20,000 free books from the first producer of free e-books.
Bibliomania – Thousands of classic books, poems, short stories and plays.
Classic Reader – Large collection of free classic books, plays, and short stories from more than 300 authors.
Bartleby Fiction – Classic anthologies and volumes.
The Personal MBA Recommended Reading List – MBA programs don’t have a monopoly on advanced business knowledge: you can teach yourself everything you need to know to succeed in life and at work. The Personal MBA features the very best business books available, based on thousands of hours of research.
Books Should Be Free – Free audio books from the public domain.
Educational Mainstream Broadcast Media
BBC Learning – Online learning, support, and advice. This site offers internal and offsite links to a vast amount of materials.
Biography – The site holds videos to past interviews and biographies on people in topics that range from Black history to women’s history.
Book TV – This is the companion site to Book TV on C-Span2. The site holds some current interviews with authors, many past interviews, opinions, reviews, and featured programs through online video.
CBC Archives — Relive Canadian history through thousands of available radio and television clips.
Discovery — This channel is home to several different networks that focus on the military, animals, travel, etc. The Discovery site offers a “Video of the Day” from its home page, a separate online video section, and a Discover Education center where teachers can accumulate materials for K-12 teaching. It’s impossible to list all their offerings here, so go discover!
History Channel – Visit the Video Gallery for a selection on historical topics. Like the Discovery Channel, this network provides many opportunities for you to gain access to information and reference materials.
NOVA — Watch current science shows or browse by category. PBS sponsors this channel.
Research Channel — Speakers, researchers and professors present revolutionary thoughts and discoveries. Use their Webstreams and an extensive video-on-demand library for research.
Weather Channel – You can learn about weather all over the world, but the Weather Channel also offers dynamic content based upon seasons and special conditions and a special multimedia and education section.
Online Archives
American Memory – The Library of Congress provides extensive multimedia offerings on various topics through their American Memory Collection, including their outstanding Built in America project that showcases historical buildings through photographs.
Fathom – This archive, provided by Columbia University, offers access to the complete range of free content developed for Fathom by its member institutions. The archives include online learning resources including lectures, articles, interviews, exhibits and seminars.
Internet Archive Open Educational Resources – A digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form.
National Archives – Provides primary source materials from NARA along with lesson plans for teaching with those sources.
National Climatic Data Center – The NCDC, a division of NOAA, maintains climatic archives, including lists of storms in given counties, and records about global extremes, etc.
The Rosetta Project – A global collaboration of language specialists and native speakers building a publicly accessible online archive of all documented human languages.
September 11 Digital Archive – This site uses electronic media to collect, preserve, and present the history of the 9/11 attacks.
U.S. Census Bureau – If you think the Census Bureau is all about numbers, you might be surprised to learn about their archived photographs, daily radio features, and more available through theirNewsroom.
Directories of Open Education
Google Scholar – Provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites.
OpenCourseWare Consortium – This site provides a portal to search through hundreds of free courses or to add new courses you know about to the database.
iBerry – Check out this site for a huge directory of open courseware organized by school and subject matter that can point you in the right direction for any type of learning.
Self Made Scholar Directory – Free online directory of web-based classes and courses.
Please add to the resource list via the comments section if you know of a valuable site we left off the list.
Credits: Marc Chernoff. Used here with permission via creative commons.
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