The classroom remains a privileged location of possibility despite the academy’s limits
Evidence
The academy is not paradise. But learning is a place where paradise can be created. The classroom, with all its limitations, remains a location of possibility. In that field of possibility we have the opportunity to labor for freedom, to demand of ourselves and our comrades, an openness of mind and heart that allows us to face reality even as we collectively imagine ways to move beyond boundaries, to transgress. This is education as the practice of freedom. — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress, 414
Categorization
- XREF: Direct bookend to ch2’s ‘the classroom is the academy’s most radical space of possibility’ — the closing rhetorically returns full circle to the bok’s thesis. — connects to: The classroom is the academy’s most radical space of possibility — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress: Education as…, 36; Advanced education can function as a process of losing faith — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress: Education as…, 408; Critical pedagogy’s core demands are often impossible inside prisons, but dialogue survives. — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed:…, 411 (+3 more)
Broader Connections
- Pedagogical hope makes students question the naturalness of present conditions
#expands(0.80) - Schools remain the major conduits to prisons without structural change
#responds-to(0.75) — Davis, Angela Y, Are Prisons Obsolete, 285 - Hierarchy transmits class-differentiated consciousness through families, constraining schools.
#qualifies(0.72)