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"Has the US President's 2017 electoral success underscored the imperative for a human context beyond the Universal Declaration of Human Rights? The Layman's Petition (c)Copyright 2002, 2007, 2010 is a high school dropout's deeply personal memoir with a strong social/philosophical element."


About the Author: Born in Canada in 1959 to British parents, the author found traditional education unaccommodating to his psychological reality and subsequently dropped out of school at age sixteen. Inspired by the 1985 CBC television series "A Planet For The Taking" with David Suzuki, the author initiated direct communications with provincial education authorities toward the development of a clearer explanation as to why he, as a former high school dropout, had found it necessary to reject the assumptions underpinning formal education. Although made to feel welcome in that 1990-91 overture, education authorities were unable to identify an 'authorized process' or 'vehicle' through which the former high school dropout could participate in meaningful discussion. In 1994, the author made a significant written submission to the subsequent Ontario Royal Commission on Learning-on the understanding that a central purpose of the Commission's work was to 'provide a forum (authorised process) for all stakeholders to participate'. When the Commission's extensive findings were published, the only possible or remotely relevant trace of the author's topically legitimate submission were the categorical and ambiguous words, 'profound questions had been raised'. Realising that his government's commission had effectively negated, silenced and withdrawn the 'Charter Status' of his 'peer community's non-academic citizenship, ' as 'stakeholders in the issue, ' the unschooled 'participant' set about developing the communication skills he would need, no matter how rustic, to challenge the suffocating and abusive myth of social, cultural or political equality in Canada. Through the course of over a decade of severe financial hardship and the social/philosophic isolation associated with the direct challenge of so volatile an issue, the author, with the unfailing support of his wife, finally rendered 'The Petition' into a publishable document. The author and his childhood sweetheart/wife live in the Collingwood are


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781425117016
  • Publisher: Trafford Publishing
  • Publisher Imprint: Trafford Publishing
  • Height: 216 mm
  • No of Pages: 92
  • Series Title: English
  • Weight: 168 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1425117015
  • Publisher Date: 25 Jun 2009
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 5 mm
  • Width: 140 mm


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