Education is supposed to be the uplifting of your mind, but nowadays education has become the stripping of culture and identity. Most people don’t like to talk about social issues such as racism, and sexism because they are admitting that these issues still exist. The same goes for education in the classroom. Most teachers avoid talking about anything hat has to do with race or sex because they worry about being politically in correct. The story “Pedagogy and Political Commitment: A Comment” by bell hooks talks about the struggle that she went through trying to teach students about racism, sexism, and domination.
Most minorities view education as a way to bridge the communication gaps between whites and themselves but others see education as a way to lose yourself. The author took it back to slavery the way the learned to live she writes “From slavery to the present, education has been revered in black communities, yet it has also been suspect.” In those days blacks were divided due to their education. Educated blacks felt better than the uneducated blacks, and it seemed the more they learned from the white man, the they would develop the ways of white-life. White-life being the way whites are brought up to live
school, we were no longer people with a history, a culture. We did not exist as anything other than primitives and slaves.” Because of this some blacks do not want to attend school because they are afraid of people making fun of them. White people see them as outsiders, people who might take their spot in the social structure of there life and black people see them as traders for leaving the lives they know best. Education does many things to a person especially someone that comes from a place where education is uncommon, it brightens your views on topics, and since you are educated people take your ideas not serious they think that there stupid and funny. This makes school life some blacks unsatisfactory.
Bell Hooks sees the education system as an incorrect environment. Teachers are not to educated students, but instead to dominating a class and to try and make their classes interesting. She feels professors are afraid to go against the regular way of doing things because they fear criticism by their co-workers and other authorities. She promised to stay true to her culture and beliefs so she taught courses like women studies and black women writing. In these classes she tried to stay neutral and not talk about issues that she opposed to such as racism, and sexism but
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