Education as a Battlefield: Why What Our Children Learn Has Always Been About Control

When enslaved Africans were forbidden to read, it was not because reading was dangerous. It was because literacy is the infrastructure of self determination. This post traces the history of education as a tool of control, from colonial literacy bans to modern curricula designed for compliance, and makes the case that reclaiming how we learn is the first step toward reclaiming everything else.

EDUCATIONAL SOVEREIGNTY