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
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 she found that being neutral didn’t work for her. Bell Hooks also believes education is a form of freedom. She teaches her students to live and act in the world by giving them interesting readings. She challenges their whole way of thinking.
their lives. However uneducated blacks still encouraged their children to go out and get an education to better their life, but in the process not to lose sight of their heritage and the background they come from. Hooks talks about the her transition between a school full of mostly black people to a school were it was mostly white. Hooks expresses her thoughts on page 78 “At the white
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