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Declaration of Educational Warfare — A Manifesto from the Classroom Frontlines

This is not a reform. This is a rebellion.

I wrote this as a public declaration—because the education system is not broken.

It was built this way.

What we call “school” is often just a pipeline: from trauma, to obedience, to silence. This isn’t about fixing it. This is about burning it down and building something that actually nurtures minds.

Declaration of Educational Warfare

~Subject index: education reform, political indoctrination, propaganda in schools, American history, truth in education, anti-authoritarian, critical thinking, curriculum manipulation, modern revolution, cultural warfare, media literacy, civic responsibility, youth empowerment, educational resistance, information control, censorship in education, radical pedagogy~

  • TheMadPhilosopher@lemm.eeOP
    6·
    3 days ago

    I wrote this because the crumbling education system is something deeply personal to me. It’s not just broken—it’s familiar.

    Has anyone else ever felt like you had to unlearn and reteach yourself just to actually understand the world?

    Because when a system fails us that hard, we’re forced to become our own teachers. And that’s where resistance begins.

    • woodenghost [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
      3·
      3 days ago

      Yes, have you heard of Paulo Freires Pedagogy of the Oppressed? Some central points: liberation must come from the oppressed and not be imposed externally, rejecting internalized oppression is necessary to reclaim our humanity, awareness of economical contradictions in order to become active to change them, praxis as the combination of reflection and action. Also much more.

      • TheMadPhilosopher@lemm.eeOP
        3·
        3 days ago

        This is exactly why I post in these spaces—so I can learn just as much as I speak. I hadn’t heard of Pedagogy of the Oppressed before, but I just looked it up and I’m floored. That idea—that liberation must come from the oppressed themselves, and that internalized oppression must be rejected—is everything I believe about education, revolution, and reclaiming power.

        Praxis as reflection and action… that hit me hard. I’m definitely going to dive deeper into Freire now. Thank you for sharing that knowledge with me.