Popular education is a current of thought which mainly seeks to promote, outside traditional educational structures and institutional education systems, education aimed at improving the social system. Since the western eighteenth century, this current of ideas has crossed many and various movements that militate more broadly for the individual development of people and community social development (in a neighborhood, a city or a group of belonging, religion, geographical origin , place of residence, etc.) in order to allow everyone to flourish and find a place in society.
Because of its specificity and its objectives, this sector lives on public subsidies. Redistribution makes it possible to give as many people as possible access to fulfillment without consideration of income. But under the effect of the crisis, the government closed funding. He had already introduced the call for projects and the competition with the lucrative sector. This policy had already weakened these sectors, but there by closing funding, it will succeed in killing them for good. The communities taken in this logic of call for projects were able to stop most of the subsidies to the associations carrying this approach.
In the next world, more just and more united, popular education has its place. It is urgent to release the funds to allow these structures to survive while waiting for the bright future. These volunteers have dedicated their lives to others, it is now time to take care of them a little. Each structure brings its richness and its know-how, if they were to close we could not find them. In a world in crisis, popular education is the backbone of a new society of collective well-being. Everything is now a question of social choice.
“By sacrificing the essential for the emergency, we end up forgetting the urgency of the essential. » Edgard Morin
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