[EDEQUITY]Additional comments of about education Afghani girls

From: lpurring (lpurring@earthlink.net)
Date: Mon Oct 22 2001 - 15:42:42 EDT


I have just read Michelle Kosmicki's warning about educating Afghani girls
more carefully, and I realize that Michelle thinks someone might be
educated
against their will. My understanding is very much that the girls of
Afghanistan
want education, women educate them in clandestine schools taking enormous
risks, there are schools throughout Afghanistan operating under threat of
death
for the teachers. Do you think this not a great upwelling of need to be
tapped
and made provision for? And certainly they themselves should be in charge
of
what they learn. If the girls learn to read and write, won't they be able
to
decide what subject they next undertake? If they learn geography, won't
they
have a better understanding of what government they choose to support?
Without
education there can be no self-determination, the basis for the American
Revolution itself. Frederick Douglass tricked a white boy into teaching him
the
alphabet, we could all of us give up one vacation a year to go teach in UN
refugee camps, couldn't we? And that way the education would be two-way.

Linda Purrington
Title IX Advocates
lpurring@earthlink.net



This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.2 : Fri Apr 12 2002 - 15:16:55 EDT