Dear friends and colleagues
I will continue by selecting more excerpts from “It is about I”. These extracts come from Chapter Two.
Education in South Africa has deep Christian roots, and after 1948, it donned a definite Calvinistic cloak. Our country is not unique regarding the influence of religion on the state and the subsequent involvement of government in education… (p 23)
Who are you?
In answer to this question, you may say that you are a teacher, a parent, a brother, a sister, an uncle or an aunt. In most cases, you will discover that you are somebody to at least one other person. (p 28)
… if you could choose a group of people you would like to spend the rest of your life with, would you qualify to be one of the people in that group? Would you meet the standards you have set for your choices? If you were able to handpick the teachers at your school or your place of work to bring about the change you wish for, would you be one of them?…
This is where I will stop for this week. One of the reasons why I am quoting from something I have published before is to give you an idea of some of my opinions. I published this little book in 2015, and when you read my anticipated communique, you might recognise that some of my ideas have remained unchanged since then. I have mentioned that my new publication follows on from what I wrote then, and when I started on this project, I wanted to call it “I is relevant” but have changed my mind in the interim.
Hope to talk to you next Sunday again. Kind regards.