What 'global goals' should the world have?
(Whose global idea is this anyway?)
Watch people in selected posts explain what they think...
Go to http://globaldimension.org.uk/news/item/16826
Listen for the points that they make. Which points do you agree with? Which points do you disagree with?
Sometimes I find it is difficult to disagree, even though I want to! It may be the speaker makes a point using language that I sympathise with, even though I don't like their conclusion.
It may be because the speaker is held in high social esteem, or is particularly persuasive, and it doesn't seem decent to undermine them. (I'm English, so I should have a complex apology strategy ready.)
It may be because somehow you fear their ideal will be picked up and used by people whose agenda you don't like the look of... but disagreeing is difficult.
For example! I expect others would like to bring shame upon my head for this one ... but I disagree with the goals of Malala Yousafzai, the
17-year old Nobel Laureate Peace Prize winner, shot in the head by the Taliban for wanting an education. (I cannot argue with that, huh?) She said at her award ceremony: "I
will continue this fight until I see every child in school".
But the UK is not Pakistan, Nigeria, India, or elsewhere. The UK has long held many philosophies of education, and Malala's goal, if realised, would see our nuanced philosophical traditions wiped out for a simplistic totalitarian solution. Maybe she's confusing the two words that so often are used interchangeably ... school and education. In the UK these different words have helped define very different worlds.
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