Public Good - Our Children
- Cem Tanriover
- Jun 14, 2020
- 2 min read
We need to be careful wherever art and literature, disguised in beauty, entertainment, or codes are used for subversion, rather than liberating, uplifting innocent souls. To change the world means to change the future. To change the future means to change our own children. To change our children means to provide them education. This means education is a public good for our world. Who is dividing our world, is who is dividing our education. Isn't it that all public goods provide equal access for free? Then to see who is dividing and who is uniting and why is best explained if we look there where education is public good versus private good. Then we can look at statistics: From Switzerland to Austria, Germany to all over Nordic countries education including higher education is public good. Isn't it that all public goods provide equal access for free? So why are in the most other parts of the world education is not free? Who is winning and who is loosing from this? The different levels of quality in public services regarding education are important too. Of course! Nevertheless, in a society where education is seen as a public good, the crime levels are much less even though the quality in public services regarding education differs, compared others. Justice and reform are a commitment in the long term. I believe that art, literature, and science have been kept for too long-isolated, and this needs to be overcome, as our base for further discussion. In my humble efforts, and as a first-time author, whose native language is not English, whose color is not black, whose mother’s women rights are not violated, and who never attempted suicide, I dared to help internalize: – just in a few pages – to discuss our homework; where we can go and how we could go – together. Please initiate more fire in our summer camp. And we need to constantly reassess, our actions, moving forward. We are committed to seeking out and sharing diverse voices within our comunities, supporting those voices that need to be amplified. After all we are stronger together.. When will we learn that We are on this planet (Alighiero Boetti 1983) for fellowship?

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