10th Anniversary of this Blog

                   Last 9th of September, this blog completed 10 years. When I began this blog in 2010, I didn't know how long it would  take. Now I feel that maybe I should keep this blog forever. If you want to know why I began this blog, you can read the first post of all in this link. where I explain why I felt the need to write  http://thepeopleteacher.blogspot.com/2010/09/volunteer-teacher.html, following this first blog where I explained why I began this blog I put some articles previously summarized in my email. In my former email, which I don't have anymore I started doing summaries of articles and reports. It is very interesting how some of those articles became so known. But if you are thinking that I started this blog to become famous, you are mistaken. I became famous in Brazil for another reason. I can say it because in 2004 I traveled by motorcycle to São Paulo city and I felt that everywhere I went people knew who I am. So after almost two decades later this fame becomes a worldwide fame. And like many things in life, this fame have positive aspects and negative aspects. Although there is not a counter in this blog, and people in Brazil never give their feedback on my blog. I know that there are millions of readers, because as many things in my life people do not say to me directly, so I have to realize  and figure out if the posts are being read. As you can see, many posts in this blog are about the importance of education, including many of the first year. This is because if a country wants to do like Japan, England, France, Germany did in the XIX century and U.S., South Korea, Ireland, Sweden, etc did in XX century, quality education for all is the only way. The history show us it. China is showing now what education can do for a country and population. If Brazil had done high investments in education 50 years ago, we would be another country today. This decade doing this blog I have been an activist for better education,  and the awareness that all are important in this process: students, parents, teachers, politicians, etc. In 1941, the Austrian writer Stefan Zweig wrote a book called "Brazil, country of the future" if you want to read more about it, here is the link  to read   about a book that gave a country a nickname http://thepeopleteacher.blogspot.com/2012/08/voltxxvi-brazil-country-of-future.html. In this book he wrote about the huge potential for brazil to become a prosperous country. The law of the new high school approved in 2017 is the better way to improve the education in Brazil in the short and medium-term, so I hope that next year this new high school can be effectively implemented all over Brazil. I have been writing here about the benefits of this change in the high school. The first summary I did about it was in November 2017, you can read here http://thepeopleteacher.blogspot.com/2017/11/flexibility-gives-students-better.html 

The Future of Society: Dystopian and Utopian Aspects in H.G. Wells - Part II

                   H.G.Wells was a great writer and an activist for better education. In his famous book, "A Short History of the World, which I read in 2009 and made a summary of the chapter LVII, if you want to read here is the link, http://thepeopleteacher.blogspot.com/2010/10/short-history-of-world.html , he did a strong defense of education as a tool of progress, social harmony and solution for every problem the humankind was facing in his time. Like me, he believed that real democracy with widespread popular participation, quality education for all and human rights effectively respected was and is the only way for humankind. This post is the second part of the same text from last weekend, the essay published at https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/51a5/4461ffb9d527b7f8c65f3e521d76a1957148.pdf

                   H.G.Wells states what he believes to be the fundamental flaw in any government system; the lack of a good quality education for all. Education and its goal of forming a better future seem to be Wells' obsession. Wells' early work had negative overtones that pointed fingers towards those who did not embrace the future. In The Time Machine the human race had deteriorated and gone backwards instead of forwards. The utopia in Wells' novel is not something that was created by a supernatural being or by stroke of luck. The real utopia is based on the people in that world, just as the title suggests, these people are the masters of their own fate and control all aspects of their world. Wells describes how the utopians, after many catastrophes and wars, lifted themselves to new heights of human development. Wells after World War I moved away from writing Scientific novels to focus on a political idea that is depicted in the novel Men Like Gods. The idea is built upon the believe that governing, leadership, should be given to those who have the best education and skill at their given task. The political agenda also calls for the creation of a world state that will control most aspects of human life within the boundaries for democratic freedom. Wells' goal is to create a better world through a peaceful revolution, using education as a tool that slowly creates change. However, many of Wells' contemporaries did not share his views and believed that the creation of a world state would in any way create a better life for the people of England or anywhere. Wells was a highly prolific writer, both in non-fiction and fiction. He dared to speak his mind and give opinion on subjects others were hesitant about and gave his audience aclear indication about what to expect in the future. Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, published in 1932, is a dystopian novel based on Wells' ideas of a world state. In the novel, Huxley creates a world state were humans are controlled by technology. Huxley warns against the so-called "progress" trough the means of science, and he wanted to express caution against unrestricted technological progess, since its goal would only be to further enhance the technology itself. In the novel humans are conditioned with constant platitudes that remind them of their role and the perfect system that supposedly surrounds them. Huxley delves deeper into Wells' novel Men Like Gods and sees the dangers of mixing technology and unchecked power. Even though Wells' political views were controversial, and in some cases radical, it does not mean that his predictions were incorrect. Today, man has become more skilful at using technology to create better conditions for ourselves, and social reform has occurred thanks to unifying organizations with common goals, such as the U.N. or the E.U. Wells was trying throughout the 20's and 1930's to describe a new solution by taking the best of democratic values and mix them with progressive ideas that represented a change from the burdened and often undisclosed way of making politics in his day.