Recycling The Gift

Recycling the GIft: The Passion Project II

What I believe is said and true

Our world is changing

Our country is failing

“Education” changed out of control

It’s not right, not whole

It’s a competition, a capitalist factory

Of chasers chasing a social status and salary

Corporations and companies killing college

A necessity for the future, for something solid

We’re all players playing a game

Different careers, but the goal all the same

We want to succeed in the world out there

Enough cash flow, some extra here and there

We are all in it just for ourselves

Lack of knowledge of the self

Organic learning I believe

Is what education should be

Like a friend teaching you

It’s really beneficial and that’s true

But our learning isn’t even like that

It’s a something called banking, a hack

We’re just containers being filled

“Learning” and getting billed

Banking, an idea from the famous Paolo Freire

Pedagogy of the Oppressed, a work to be shared

We are taught there’s only one way

But there’s many I say

Teaching shouldn’t be for a test

It should be for making you your best

Math makes me feel like encouraged

Gets involved and not discouraged

Community and participation

Path to success, good motivation

Teaching one another really does help

Learning what you need and testing yourself

Stupid questions or answers, intimidation

Say it, ask it, I’m not playing

Be social and learn what you need

Don’t be scared of reality

Schooling, education are two different things

Schooling teaches to do the same thing

Don’t shake stuff up, keep it plain

Institutionalizing our brains

Education is to self analyze and understand

Your place in the world, as womyn or man

Schooling is an excuse for the broken to be fixed

But street smart in schooling don’t exist