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What I did as a twenty-year-old student teacher was a misuse of power. At least, to me, it was a misuse. Whether it was a misuse or an abuse, however, is not for me—the one with higher rank—to decide. From the perspective of those sixteen-year-olds, the only two racial minorities in that class in a small Ohio town, trying to get an education, it
... See moreJulie Diamond • Power: A User's Guide
In 2000, economics students in Paris had sent an open letter to their professors, rejecting the dogmatic teaching of mainstream theory. ‘We wish to escape from imaginary worlds!’ they wrote, ‘Call to teachers: wake up before it is too late!’
Kate Raworth • Doughnut Economics: The must-read book that redefines economics for a world in crisis
Leyla Acaroglu • System Failures: The Education System and the Proliferation of Reductive Thinking
I did start to see subtle and blatant ways I had been turning the students away from their own questioning spirits.
Becky Thompson • Teaching With Tenderness
The rest of my teachers maybe did the best they could, but they just needed a lot of help making their best better. There were so many things we needed in those classrooms, in our city, in our state, in our country that our teachers could have provided if they would have gone home and really done their homework. They never once said the words:
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