"I longed passionately to teach differently from the way I had been taught since high school. The first paradigm that shaped my pedagogy was the idea that the classroom should be an exciting place, never boring. And if boredom should prevail, then pedagogical strategies were needed that would intervene, alter, even disrupt the atmosphere...To enter classroom settings in universities with the will to share the desire to encourage excitement, was to transgress...As a classroom community, our capacity to generate excitement is deeply affected by our interest in one another, in hearing one anothers voices, in recognizing one anothers presence...any radical pedagogy must insist that everyones presence is acknowledged...Excitement is generated through collective effort..."
-from bell hooks, TEACHING TO TRANSGRESS / EDUCATION AS THE PRACTICE OF FREEDOM
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