International Day of Education: How Education Can Be Liberatory 🎓✊

“Do children have the right to choose how they learn?”

For the International Day of Education, we’re amplifying the powerful words of Supara Prabyai from the Children and Youth Foundation (CYF), following her participation in our UPR Capacity & Movement-Building Workshop in Khon Kaen, Isaan. 📚✨

Like CYF, we at Manushya name the truth: the dominant education system is inaccessible and deeply colonial by design. It rewards the elite with wealth and social capital, while excluding working-class and rural children and those who learn differently.

Alternative schools and community learning spaces disrupt this model. They embrace multiple forms of intelligence and treat learning as a collective process, not a competition. So children and youth can thrive without conforming to an elite system. 🌻

As Supara reminds us, when education is pursued on a person’s own terms, it doesn’t just change one life, it transforms entire communities.

Education is a right. Education must be liberatory. ✊

#WeAreManushyan ♾️ Equal Human Beings

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