“... teaching cannot be a process of transference of knowledge from the one teaching to the learner. This is the mechanical transference from which results machinelike memorization, which I have already criticized. Critical study correlates with teaching that is equally critical, which necessarily demands a critical way of comprehending and of realizing the reading of the word and that of the world, the reading of text and of context.” WorldWayReadingProcessRealizingResultsLearningStudyTeachingDemandCriticalLearnersOf ContextComprehendingTransferenceMemorization Book:Teachers as Cultural Workers: Letters to Those who Dare Teach Source: Teachers as Cultural Workers: Letters to Those who Dare Teach
“There's an appeal to the American sense of exceptionalism, that we're morally superior, as way to not be self-critical. I think that's a bit dangerous.” ThinkingWaySelfBitsDangerousCriticalSuperiorsAppealsExceptionalism Author:Al Franken
“One of the most disturbing ways that climate change is already playing out is through what ecologists call "mismatch" or "mistiming." This is the process whereby warming causes animals to fall out of step with a critical food source, particularly at breeding times, when a failure to find enough food can lead to rapid population losses.” WayEnoughScienceFallCausesProcessLossAnimalStepsFoodSourceClimateClimate ChangePopulationCriticalRapidsDisturbingBreedingMismatch Author:Naomi Klein