We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom Free Audiobook Download by Bettina Love

"We Want to Do More Than Survive" is a book about the struggle for educational freedom and a call for teachers, students, and parents to work together and fight back against the school-to-prison pipeline. Bettina Love's writing is engaging and powerful. She does a good job of not only telling her story but of also weaving in specific lessons learned from her experience as an educator who has been incarcerated.

Bettina Love authored "We Want To Do More Than Survive," a book about abolitionist teaching and the pursuit of educational freedom. The main thesis of this book is that education is not inherently linked to the work force, but rather the relationship between learning, justice, and empowerment. This theory has been in place since at least 1775 when "the Anti-School Society" was established in Pennsylvania by Quakers intent on pursuing an education outside of the constraints of a formal system. Bettina represents herself as someone who changed her life because she pursued an education without depending on a job market that did not exist for her within her social group. She went on to be a teacher for over 20 years and then began working with students in low-income communities

It is very hard to find a book that teaches us how to do more than survive. This book was written to teach us how to create a better life for ourselves and others. The author, Bettina Love, says we must have the courage to be active in educating the world about our needs. We should change the traditional ways we view education, because it does not have any value if it is simply for survival. The main message of this book is that education should not be based on what we need but on what we want.

"This book is dedicated to the educators of black people, who have always known that there is no real freedom without education, but who have also been targeted by a system they ultimately sought to transform."

As she reminds us, "We want to do more than survive, we want to excel." Too often in education today, people get caught up in "survival" mode. Because all too often educators walk into classrooms each day thinking that they must provide the best service possible. They are not just teaching but also taking care of their students and making sure that they will be successful in life. This is what Bettina Love believes; she makes an effort to "teach beyond survival" which includes a constant focus on student engagement and challenge.

Love's work was inspired by the abolitionist movement of the nineteenth century, her belief that teaching is a political issue and a moral right, and her call for educators to use their power "to bring children up in a world where they're not just surviving".