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What Does It Mean To Be Well Educated? |
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Alfie Kohn
Reprinted from Principal Leadership by permission of the author. This article also appears in Kohn's anthology What Does It Mean to Be Well Educated? And More Essays on Standards, Grading, and Other Follies (Beacon Press, 2004) No one should offer pronouncements about what it means to be well educated without meeting my wife. When I met Alisa, she was at Harvard, putting the finishing touches on her doctoral dissertation in anthropology. A year later, having spent her entire life in school, she decided to do the only logical thing . . . and apply to medical school. Today she is a practicing physician—and an excellent one at that, judging by feedback from her patients and colleagues. |
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The development of the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola |
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My intention in this paper is to examine the development of the MPLA (Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola), the most 'left-wing' of the three major national-liberation movements which arose in Angola during the colonial period, and the movement which was finally successful in establishing itself as the Government of an 'independent' Angola. I have produced this case-study of a national-liberation movement, because I am interested in the wider question of anti-imperialist struggle, and in developing a libertarian perspective upon it. By studying the ideological roots of MPLA, and the effect of these roots upon the movement's tactics and organisational structure, I hope to clarify some central features of the whole question of national-liberation in the "Third World". |
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