# Democratic Education and Respect for Popular Knowledge

- Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2117417192832508016
- Source account: [@amorimbaiano](https://x.com/amorimbaiano)
- Source language: Portuguese
- Target language: English
- Duration: 1:01
- Published: 2026-11-03
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- Original-language version: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/D5uZuJTWyAun/pt/educa%C3%A7%C3%A3o-democr%C3%A1tica-e-respeito-ao-saber-popular.md

## Transcript

[0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/D5uZuJTWyAun/en/democratic-education-and-respect-for-popular-knowledge) The first thing we have to understand is that we can quite easily live in a much more decent country than the one we're living in.

[0:07](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/D5uZuJTWyAun/en/democratic-education-and-respect-for-popular-knowledge?t=7) In a more democratic country, in a country with a fairer dis-distribution of income, in a country with better health care, but above all, a country with better education.

[0:16](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/D5uZuJTWyAun/en/democratic-education-and-respect-for-popular-knowledge?t=16) That's a difficult thing that takes courage, that takes, I would say, love, you know? Love not in the sense of the sappy way that word can sometimes be used.

[0:30](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/D5uZuJTWyAun/en/democratic-education-and-respect-for-popular-knowledge?t=30) It takes—it takes a certain courage to love the very educational process, which is a process of learning.

[0:38](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/D5uZuJTWyAun/en/democratic-education-and-respect-for-popular-knowledge?t=38) That means respecting the masses of ordinary people, the working classes, respecting what they already know simply because they're alive.

[0:49](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/D5uZuJTWyAun/en/democratic-education-and-respect-for-popular-knowledge?t=49) And from there, together with them, go beyond what they already know and As they know, because it's their right.

[0:56](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/D5uZuJTWyAun/en/democratic-education-and-respect-for-popular-knowledge?t=56) Every cruzeiro invested in education isn't a cruzeiro wasted.