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Anyone recognise that as a slogan?  I associate it with literacy programmes in ?Niceragua?  I am arguing with someone in Africa who is saying that until they have in place a western-style network of qualified instructors to support the doctors, there is no way to educate diabetics ...  Me and Friere (and whoever came up with 'each one ...') argue otherwise. 

I live in a world in which some people are selling their NHS-prescribed test strips at £10 a go on Ebay, and others are being misdiagnosed with aids, when they are dying diabetic ketoacidosis.  

On a lighter note, heard back from the OED re 'mundane':
"Thank you for your message and link.  I shall add this information to
the OED's revision file, to ensure that it is taken into account when
the editors are next at work in this part of the alphabet."
Gets my prize of the day for a sentence which applies whether a 'normal' or a 'user of mental health services' has submitted the opinion that 'mundane' needs revision.
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A couple of nights ago on Balderdash and Piffle (http://www.oed.com/bbcwords/) , some survivors of the mental health service were arguing that a new definition of 'normal' should be included in the OED.  It was rejected, but I thought it should have been accepted, because they were describing a new usage, which paralleled the recent use of 'mundane'.

Looking up 'mundane', I find the OED has the earliest entry as
1959 R. ENEY Fancyclopedia II 48 - but here 'mundane' means 'a mundane work of fiction', rather than 'a mundane person'.

The earliest for 'mundane [person]' they have is 1986.   Can we do better?  Scour those early 1980s ReadMes for references!

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