Bolivia Leads, Texas Lags

The Bolivian Law of Education 2010
By the PNC-Texas Bureau, reporting for PNC-News

In April of 2012 Anouki Sa of the South American Bureau of the PNC reported on Pagan aspects of the Bolivian 2010 Law of Education. In that article, Sa comments that as a child she intuitively understood that men were superior beings, an understanding reinforced by poetess Adela Zamudio in her poem “Nacer Hombre” (To Be Born Male):

Of Bolivia’s new articles of education, Sa says,“Today things appear to change, taking a route in which women feel included; I feel like an equal. Reading the Education Law I found some articles that make me think that, really, the energy of balance, of revalidating the feminine is present.”

A clear rejection of European colonial social attitudes appears in Article 3 [InfoLeyes]:“It is decolonizing, liberating, revolutionary, anti-imperialistic, de-patriarchical and transformative of the economic and social structures; oriented to the cultural reaffirmation of nations and the ordinary rural indigenous peoples, intercultural and Afro-Bolivian communities, in the construction of the Plurinational State and the Live Well philosophy.”

The article goes further into Pagan values in paragraph 13: “Education assumes and promotes as principles the moral ethics of the pluralistic society known as ama qhilla, ama llulla, ama suwa (don’t be lazy, don’t be a liar or a thief), suma qamaña [Good Living], ñandereko (harmonious life), teko kavi (healthy life), ivi maraei (good use of land) and qhapaj ñan (noble path or life), and the principles of other peoples. It sustains values of unity, equality, inclusion, dignity, liberty, solidarity, reciprocity, complementary actions, social and participatory equity, the common well-being, responsibility, social justice and critical thinking.” [Sic]

In comparison, the Texas Republican party recently promoted a platform [Texas GOP Convention Platform Statement] that states:“We oppose the teaching of Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) (values clarification), critical thinking skills and similar programs that are simply a relabeling of Outcome-Based Education (OBE) (mastery learning).”

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· PNC-Southamerica is the South American Bureau of the Pagan Newswire Collective.
· Bolivia was previously in the Pagan news in an article presented in No Unsacred Place.
· Translations presented here are not official. For the original language of the 2010 Law of Education, see here.