Education must carry risk and provocation
Hermann Göring, a close follower of Adolf Hitler who committed suicide in his cell after the Nuremberg Trials, formulated the thought that “Education is dangerous because every educated person is a future enemy“.
The easiest way to eliminate people is to eliminate thinking about the possibilities of knowledge.
You probably remember Michelle Pfeiffer as Teacher Johnson in the 1995 film “Dangerous Minds”, directed by John N. Smith and produced by Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer. A little-known fact is that it is based on an autobiography “My Posse Don’t Do Homework” by former American Marine Luanne Johnson, who, yes, is a woman and took a teaching position at Carlmont High School in Belmont, California in 1989, where most of the teenage students are of African-American and Spanish origin and with whom it is extremely difficult to work.
