Teaching at the Edge of Empire, Part I

[monkeyparts]

-  What did you learn in school today, dear little boy of mine...  There's a difference I take pains to impress upon my students between schooling and education.  Schooling is when I, acting as a teacher, know something you don't know, which you ought to know, the knowledge of which will make you a better person, almost as good as me.  Education is

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[daisydumont]

this is heart-rending. i wonder how many of the teachers are as attuned to all this as you are?

>unless a legitimate cultural exchange takes place, in which the dominant society gives up some of its deeply held beliefs and adopts some from the 'minority', rather than simply taking the material trappings of that subjugated culture and claiming ownership, we are still in the same colonial straits we were when this whole righteously outraged movement started.

what a painful situation for everyone. i'm distressed by the thought of those Kachinas used as decorations or even "trophies," as you say.

[doesdance]

"seducation"

sorry, i'm only halfway through the second paragraph, but i felt like i should interject