To Teach Is Part Of The Very

Teachers Who Do Not Take Their Own Education Seriously, Who Do Not Study, Who Make Little Effort To Keep Abreast Of Events Have No Moral Authority To Coordinate The Activities Of The Classroom.

Educators Need To Know What Happens In The World Of The Children With Whom They Work. They Need To Know The Universe Of Their Dreams, The Language With Which They Skillfully Defend Themselves From The Aggressiveness Of Their World, What They Know Independently Of The School, And How They Know It.

The Oppressed, Having Internalized The Image Of The Oppressor And Adopted His Guidelines, Are Fearful Of Freedom.

One Of My Major Preoccupations Is The Approximation Between What I Say And What I Do, Between What I Seem To Be And What I Am Actually Becoming.

Reading The Word And Learning How To Write The Word So One Can Later Read It Are Preceded By Learning How To Write The World, That Is Having The Experience Of Changing The World And Touching The World.