![]() The classroom, with all its limitations, remains a location of possibility. But learning is a place where paradise can be created. ![]() Influenced by the famous Brazilian educator and philosopher Paulo Freire, she makes her case very clear: She is radical in her commitment and in her courage not to conform, to be different, to be engaging, to engage and bring change. Noam Chomsky, David Harvey and Michael Hardt are not near as close to bell hooks in the energy and inspiration with which they address the issues of education and critical consciousness. Giving the students such lenses is the greatest gift of education.īell hooks is the most radical educator, feminist, cultural critic and analyst you can come across in academia. ![]() Rendering the mundane exotic is perhaps key in education. ![]() ![]() My major satisfaction comes from the consciousness that I have the opportunity and hopefully the capacity to touch someone’s life early on to an extent that would allow transformation, personal and professional, mostly via showing the new ways of looking and thinking about reality, about the mundane, about the obvious. It is not self-esteem which I am gaining here, although I recognize that teaching is a mildly narcissistic activity which may inflate already oversize egos. One of the major things that makes my life meaningful at this particular moment is teaching and the chance to pass some knowledge and ways of thinking to my students. ![]()
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