Conservatism teaches professors they have nothing to learn from students.
Evidence
Along with them I grow intellectually, developing sharper understandings of how to share knowledge and what to do in my participatory role with students. This is one of the primary differences between education as a practice of freedom and the conservative banking system which encourages professors to believe deep down in the core of their being that they have nothing to learn from their students. — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress, 296
Categorization
- XREF: Sharp contrast with the banking-system concept hooks develops across the whole book. — connects to: Progressive politics do not equip educators with skills for teaching diverse students. — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress: Education as…, 89; Professors resist treating students as whole people rather than as knowledge seekers; Scholars who advocate critical pedagogy often fail to embody it in their own classrooms — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress: Education as…, 280 (+3 more)
Broader Connections
- Professors’ residential segregation from students breeds self-declared liberalism masking classroom conservatism
#expands(0.78) — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress, 261 - Scholars who advocate critical pedagogy often fail to embody it in their own classrooms
#exemplifies(0.76) — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress, 280 - Traditional teacher authority dismisses student knowledge and acts oppressively
#corroborates(0.75) — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 724 - Professors resist treating students as whole people rather than as knowledge seekers
#complicates(0.74) - Progressive politics do not equip educators with skills for teaching diverse students.
#corroborates(0.72) — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress, 89 - Non-dialogical curriculum fails because it ignores the people’s themes
#qualifies(0.71) — Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 347