The classroom is a cypher. HipHopEd makes this explicit. Voice are equal and voices are heard.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysLhA7yTuLo

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He sounds like the type of English teacher I wish I was. English teaching should be free and rebellious and cross-curricular and passionate. if not, you’re just a conveyor of texts and an exam-preparation drone.

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Like Icarus. Or Adam and Eve. But I’m not blaming women. More men. Our arrogance and vanity and short-term thinking is the problem. A female oriented society would have stopped many of these problems much sooner.

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We’ve given up. Quit. But we shouldn’t. Fight the power.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YR4CseY9pk

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Markets speak louder than words. Or people. Or anything. They are the new gods in this Babylonian system. Destroy this system. Reclaim your humanity…

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An example of the real crimes mentioned earlier.

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We’re blind. This is a line in the spirit of Blake’s ‘mind forg’d manacles’. We wear, often willingly, blinkers which stop us from really seeing, really being aware, really knowing – and most of you like it like that. Garvey said it, Marley said.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFGgbT_VasI

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PRISM. And much, much more. We’re told so much about terrorists and about the economy and about all these things to fear, but, in reality, it’s the system which is the problem. It’s the system which controls and exploits and hurts and damages humanity. They’re the real crimes, our leaders are the real criminals.

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It often appears that the rich, or at least those who consider themselves better off, look at the poor with distaste and hatred. A quick look at British television or news media will show this quite clearly.

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Kubla Khan decreed a stately pleasure dome at Xanadu. But then Coleridge, who was partial to laudunum, was awoken by the Vicar of Porlock, or his dealer, depending who you believe.

This was a shame, because it ended this amazing, drug inspired poem… which Punnfire now turns into a very smart scheme.

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