Jennifer Smith

“Don’t trade one kind of blindness for another.”
― Mona Awad, Bunny

“The exciting aspect of creating a classroom community where there is respect for individual voices is that there is infinitely more feedback because students do feel free to talk — and talk back. And, yes, often this feedback is critical. Moving away from the need for immediate affirmation was crucial to my growth as a teacher. I learned to respect that shifting paradigms or sharing knowledge in new ways challenges; it takes time for students to experience that challenge as positive.”
― bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom

“Oak Hill Library had only one microfiche machine and few things actually on microfiche.”
― Dan Simmons, Summer of Night

“Hence, any theory that cannot be shared in everyday conversation cannot be used to educate the public.”
― bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom