Today at work I am supposed to organize articles and sections from books that a professor here printed off into different categories. I've been reading the abstracts or the first few paragraphs of some and found some that I like, this one especially and I wanted to share a paragraph with you all.
"Teaching in a Moment of Crisis: The Spaces of Imagination" By Maxine Greene
They adapt to what they think they of as a system, the "rule by nobody" thought to mark the pressures of bureaucracy, more often than not, they identify their students by grades and test scores; they categorize them in accord with a bell curve; they impose extrinsic standards, depriving the young of a sense of agency or the chance to think themselves to be motivated by a desire to "spare" their students the pains of uncertainty. In fact, they themselves may find unanswerable questions unendurable. They prefer to remain within the limits of what is thought 'normal', the agreed-upon, the unquestionably true. They may be among those who refuse to include the study of evolution, who avoid what is called "theory" in the name of Truth. They are willing to accept prayer in their classrooms and reject anything like sex or AIDS education."
That is just a paragraph from what I read! Hope you enjoy it the way I did!
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