<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">Anna, </div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">I truly second what you are so lovingly trying to say here! It is a "disempowering" state developed in children while young and thus still very sensitive to emotional learning. Unfortunately, when that learning is thus done badly by society's previous damage & reinforced in school, motivation and hope are both deeply damaged. On both the individual and thus wider social level, instead of feeling "we can", we much more quickly accept the reinforced emotional learning that, "we can not!"</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">But in going towards the hope & the possibility instead, I always ask at this point which is more fun and enjoyable to believe and do? And which direction are the people more interesting, creative and empowered? </div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">Especially the youth and children?</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">For me it therefore becomes no contest for where I want to put my energy and time.</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">Thanks for your spark, Anna!</div><div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>June Gorman, Educator and Educational Theorist</b><br></span></div><div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Co-founder<b>, </b><a href="http://tef.globalchallengesforum.org/"><b><span style="text-decoration: none; ">Transformative Education Forum</span></b></a><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Education Advisor, <a href="http://www.safepla.net/"><i><span style="text-decoration: none; ">UN SafePlanet Campaign</span></i><span style="text-decoration: none; "> </span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><i>Board Project Director for Outreach, I</i><a href="http://imuna.org/"><i><span style="text-decoration: none; ">nternational Model United Nations Association</span></i></a><i> </i><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><i>Steering Committee, (UNESCO/Global Compact) </i><a href="http://www.uspartnership.org/main/view_archive/1"><i><span style="text-decoration: none; ">K-12 Sector for Sustainability Education </span></i></a><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Member, UN Education Caucus for Sustainable Development</span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Member, UN Commons Cluster</span></div><br><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Sent from my iPhone</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br>On Jul 19, 2013, at 12:00 PM, Anna Harris <<a href="mailto:anna@shsh.co.uk">anna@shsh.co.uk</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">Yes, Edu, even as we wake up to see how we were shaped by the system we also realise how we are trapped in it, and recreate it ourselves. But that knowledge also gives us power.<br><br>Personally for me there has to be a short term payback as well as thinking of the benefit in the long term. If it was just down to imagining what it would be like <b><i>if</i></b> billions of us did the same that would not motivate me. What does it for me is connecting with the authentic voice within me, which is to do with having the courage to trust myself no matter what.<br>
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