More on bell hooks
My earlier entry on bell hooks was a protest on Florida relegating her work to the”appendix” of an African American curriculum in a collaboration with the governor and the board of the College Board in Princeton. I neglected, though, to share my favorite quote from her which I pass out to every class of students interested in education:
“What forms of passion might make us whole? To what passions may be surrender with the assurance that we will expand rather than diminish the promise of our lives?” The quest for knowledge that enables us to unite theory and practice is one such passion. To the extent that professors bring this passion, which has to be fundamentally rooted in a love for ideas we are able to inspire, the classroom becomes a dynamic place where transformations in social relations are concretely actualized and the false dichotomy between the world outside and the inside world of the academy disappears.
—from her book Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom