{"id":3157,"date":"2011-11-14T10:14:13","date_gmt":"2011-11-14T15:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/?p=3157"},"modified":"2011-11-14T10:14:13","modified_gmt":"2011-11-14T15:14:13","slug":"coffee-conversation-education-under-fire-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/2011\/11\/14\/coffee-conversation-education-under-fire-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Coffee &amp; Conversation: &#8220;Education Under Fire&#8221; Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite seeing some of the best and the worse, I\u2019m a believer: education \u2013 both formal and the schooling on the outside of a building \u2013 saved my life.<\/p>\n<p>Education also made my life.<\/p>\n<p>Much of the chatter about education centers on the economic angle. What happened to the civic, social, and moral aspects of education? Not important? Can we truly be hopeful without making education an entitlement \u2013 including education beyond the traditional American compulsory years?<\/p>\n<p>And what of the folks dying for an education?<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/29493907?byline=0&amp;portrait=0&amp;color=ff0000\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/29493907\">Rainn Wilson BIHE Video Appeal<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/educationunderfire\">Education Under Fire<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Do we take education and its impacts for granted? Is our collective identity tied to education? Why is it all so crummy? Should education, at all levels, be a right? It\u2019s already globally recognized, but should America guarantee education? How much and how little? Can you be a human being without an advanced education?<\/p>\n<p>This Friday, during Coffee and Conversation, let\u2019s talk about the expectations of education.\u00a0 We\u2019ll start by checking out the 30-minute documentary <em><a href=\"http:\/\/educationunderfire.com\/speaking-about\/euf-articles\/iran-bans-underground-university-brands-it-extremist-cult\/\">Education Under Fire<\/a><\/em>. You take it from there \u2013 I\u2019ll bring the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.c3cafe.net\/\">cookies and coffee<\/a>; you bring the convo.\u00a0 See you \u2013 3-5 p.m. \u2013 at the <a href=\"..\/..\/thurman\/\">Howard Thurman Center<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Peace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite seeing some of the best and the worse, I\u2019m a believer: education \u2013 both formal and the schooling on the outside of a building \u2013 saved my life. Education also made my life. Much of the chatter about education centers on the economic angle. What happened to the civic, social, and moral aspects of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1495,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[85],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3157"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1495"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3157"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3158,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3157\/revisions\/3158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}