#COVID-19’dan, nasıl kazanacayız?
How do we win against the #CoronaVirus?
“Potansiyelim var.” == “I have potential.”
Hakan, “The Protector” of Istanbul and of all humankind, argues that despite his lack of formal education, he has the potential to do just as well as any university-educated person, even to solve problems like a deadly virus epidemic. And, in the end, he manages to do it.
(Hermione Granger y Amelia Folch would run to the #library to get the book Karakalem ve Bir Delikanlının Tuhaf Hikayesi by Nilüfer İpek Gökdel, to read about how one deadly virus was defeated by Hakan and the Loyal Ones, after learning Turkish, of course!)
Each and every person, Protector or not, has potential. And every person has the human right to an opportunity to prove that potential. But everyone needs education in order to bring out and fulfill his or her potential. Hakan was given that education by Zeynep, his most Loyal One, but we all have a world-wide educational system that currently only works in favor of those who can either afford to pay, or have the opportunity to get scholarships. Scholarships and education require enough stable housing to be able to study. That requires at least enough food, clothing, and shelter to be able to concentrate or get safely to a library and concentrate for a few hours per day in safety.
Public transit often plays a crucial role in this, but this post will focus on the need for every person to have a free opportunity to gain education. Whether it is a university education, or on-going adult education regarding consumer rights, legal rights of other kinds, like tenants rights and worker’s rights, or financial and debt-related rights, everyone needs training. While most states do have some sort of free adult education, workshops on local laws, for example, most states do not have nearly enough resources available for all of the hard-working students who would like to attend university but cannot afford to. I have a proposal for helping them to reach their potential, and thus helping us all to reach our fuller potential as a society. And you don’t even need to learn #Turkish (although that will open windows on the wider world to you, should you choose to accept the challenge)!
What if every diligent student were offered free study texts and allowed to sit an entrance exam for free university studies, in exchange for the promise to help by giving back to the local community as payment for his or her studies? For example, let everyone be given free SAT prep classes, and then, any person passing the entrance exam for university studies for free. Suppose one passes the exam and studies accounting. That person must first agree to teach free tax preparation courses every tax season, at least during the time he or she studies at the university. Let everyone with a bachelors degree be given free LSAT prep courses, but then if admitted to a free Law School, agree to teach free courses on consumer rights, give free workshops on state debt laws, etc. Let paralegal students study for free, but pledge to teach free seminars on local renters’ rights and let the MBA students study for free, but teach free seminars on investment and business planning or small business marketing planning in the local area, while studying for that free Master’s degree.
Meanwhile, remember: “Bu bir masal değil.” “This is not a fairy tale.”
So, #LearnALanguage, compare the studies in various languages, and #StopSmoking!!
Let’s #EndPoverty, #EndHomelessness, & #EndMoneyBail while improving these four parts of our good #PublicDomainInfrastructure:
1. #libraries,
2. #ProBono legal aid and Education,
3. #UniversalHealthCare , and
4. good #publictransport
Read, Write, Ranked Choice Voting and Housing for ALL!!!!, Walk !
#PublicDomainInfrastructure and #languagelearn,
ShiraDest
April, 12020 HE
Ranger Mayann 