Another Mexican American in another class, approaches Victor after class, carrying his copy of Fahrenheit 451, required reading for the course. The student doesn't understand the reference to a salon. Victor explains that this is just another word for the living room. No understanding in the student's eyes. He tries Spanish: la salon. Still nothing. The student has grown up as a migrant worker. And Victor remembers the white student who had been in his class a quarter ago, who had written about not understanding racism, that there was none where he had grown up, in Wennatchee, that he has played with the children of his father's migrant workers without there being any hostility. His father's workers. Property. Property that doesn't know of living rooms. And Victor thought of what the man from Wennatchee knew, what the ROTC Mexican American knew, what the migrant worker knew. And he thought of getting up the next morning to go with Serena to St. Mary's for cheese and butter. And he knew there was something he was not doing in his composition classrooms.
Victor VillanuevaTags: teaching rhetoric pedagogy composition psycholinguistic-theory
The teacher is of course an artist, but being an artist does not mean that he or she can make the profile, can shape the students. What the educator does in teaching is to make it possible for the students to become themselves.
Paulo FreireTags: art education empowerment teaching
Was I gleeful, settled, content, during the hours I passed in yonder bare, humble schoolroom this morning and afternoon? Not to decieve myself, I must reply -- No: I felt desolate to a degree. I felt -- yes, idiot that I am -- I felt degraded. I doubted I had taken a step which sank instead of raising me in the scale of social existence. I was weakly dismayed at the ignorance, the poverty, the coarseness of all I heard and saw around me. But let me not hate and despise myself too much for these feelings; I know them to be wrong -- that is a great step gained. I shall strive to overcome them.
Charlotte BrontëTags: teaching
You shouldn't call then anything. They're poor unfortunate people who cannot help the way they look,
Jacqueline WilsonThe years teach us much, which the days never knew.
Ralph Waldo EmersonTags: experience learning teaching life-lessons
But for I am a woman should I therefore live that I should not tell you the goodness of God?
Julian of NorwichTags: empowerment equality gender women teaching
The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.
John DeweyTags: education learning philosophy teaching
It is so delightful to teach those one loves!
Andrew LangTags: love delight fairy-tales teaching delightful teach
A person must earn enlightenment, Eragon. It is not handed down to you by others, regardless of how revered they be.
Christopher PaoliniTags: knowledge teaching enlightenment
I don't teach lies, but I do not teach all I know is true.
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