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what I will tell you is that some of the most extraordinary creations are born in terror. Wielded from molten black . . . if only the wielder is wise enough to see the lava for what it truly is.
“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.”
― Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom
― Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom
“For example, I am disturbed when all the courses on black history or literature at some colleges and universities are taught solely by white people, not because I think that they cannot know these realities but that they know them differently.”
― Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom
― Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom
“Close my eyes. Let the night become dawn. Let the snow outside fall and fall like it will bury us. Please bury us. It would be totally fine by me.”
― Bunny
― Bunny
“Don’t trade one kind of blindness for another.”
― Bunny
― Bunny
“for the first time in my life, I was aware of cold as a menace.”
― Dark Matter
― Dark Matter
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