Language Is Never Neutral

Language Is Never Neutral

I Hope At Least That The Following Will Endure: My Trust In The People, And My Faith In Men And Women, And In The Creation Of A World In Which It Will Be Easier To Love

It Is Impossible To Talk Of Respect For Students For The Dignity That Is In The Process Of Coming To Be, For The Identities That Are In The Process Of Construction, Without Taking Into Consideration The Conditions In Which They Are Living And The Importance Of The Knowledge Derived From Life Experience, Which They Bring With Them To School. I Can In No Way Underestimate Such Knowledge. Or What Is Worse, Ridicule It.

Washing One's Hands Of The Conflict Between The Powerful And The Powerless Means To Side With The Powerful, Not To Be Neutral.

A Fact Which Is Not Denied But Whose Truths Are Rationalized Loses Its Objective Base. It Ceases To Be Concrete And Becomes A Myth Created In Defense Of The Class Of The Perceiver.