Forge A School Adventure!

'We forge a school adventure, a school that marches on, that is not afraid of the risks, and that rejects immobility. It is a school that thinks,that participates, that creates, that speaks ,that loves,that guesses,that passionately embraces and says yes to life. It is not a school that quiets down and quits.
Indeed the easy way out in dealing with obstacles posed by governmental contempt and the arbitrariness of antidemocratic authorities is the fatalist resignation in which many of us find ourselves.......................

..........It is the position of those who renounce conflict , the lack of which undermines the dignity of life. There may not be life or human existence without struggle and conflict. Conflict shares in our conscience. Denying conflict we ignore even  the most mundane aspects of our vital and social experience. Trying to escape conflict,we preserve the status quo.
Thus I can see no alternative to educators to unity within the diversity of their interests in defending their rights. Such rights include the right to freedom in teaching, the right to speak, the right to better conditions for pedagogical work, the right to paid sabbaticals for continuing education, the right to be coherent, the right to criticise the authorities without fear of retaliation (which entails the right to criticise truthfully), the right to the duty to be serious and coherent and to not have to lie to survive.
We must fight so these rights are not just recognised but respected and implemented. At times we may need to fight side by side with the unions;at other times we may need to fight against them,if their leadership is sectarian, whether right of left. At other times we also need to fight as a progressive administration against the devilish anger of the obsolete ;the traditionalists, some of whom judge themselves progressive;and of the neoliberals who see themselves, who see themselves as the culmination of history.'

Paolo Freire-Teachers as cultural workers :letters to those who dare teach. (1998)