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Figured this sentiment \u2013 said better than I\u2019d be able to \u2013 should probably be reiterated as much as possible in the world of \u201cpink slips and yellow unions.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n \u00a0We must defeat arguments such as this one: \u201cWe can give, say, attorneys for the Union reasonable raises; there are only about sixty of them. We couldn\u2019t do the same for teachers; there are 20,000 of them.\u201d No. This is no argument. First, I want to know whether teachers are important or not. I want to know whether their salaries are insufficient, whether their task is indispensable or not. It is on such questions that this difficult and long struggle, which calls for patient impatience on the part of educators and political wisdom from their leadership, must be centered. It is important to fight against the colonial traditions we bring with us. It is imperative that we fight to defend the relevance of our task, a relevance that must gradually (but as quickly as possible) become incorporated within society\u2019s most general and obvious stratum of knowledge.<\/p>\n The more we acquiesce to being made into coddling mothers, the more society will find it strange that we go on strike and demand that we remain well behaved.<\/p>\n Conversely, the sooner society recognizes the relevance of our profession, the more it will support us.<\/p>\n –Paulo Freire<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n <\/p>\n\n
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