[NIFL-AALPD:831] saints and communists

From: Eileen Eckert (eileeneckert@hotmail.com)
Date: Mon Nov 24 2003 - 10:48:27 EST


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Friends and colleagues,
I have a poster that reads, "When I give food to the poor, they call me a 
saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist."

As we enter this season of giving, getting, and official thankfulness (!), 
maybe it's appropriate to ask ourselves whether our practice of education 
and pd is a matter of metaphorically giving food to the poor, asking why the 
poor have no food, or both.

Whichever the answer, how do we know that self-report is accurate? And is 
that what we really want to be doing? Why?

Eileen

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