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bell hooks: In Her Own Words

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The Power of Critical Thinking

The most enabling resource that I can offer as a critic or an intellectual professor is the capacity to think critically about our lives. My students were equally brilliant in the Harlem setting as they were when I taught at Yale or Oberlin, but their sense of agency was profoundly different. Many professors do not try to give them the gift of critical thinking in a certain kind of patronizing way. Education just says all these people need is tools for survival, basic survival tools like their degree so they can get a job. We're now, son of petition is command and uncheap to stand in his feet. Regent can we candidly speak, vote to the men, trust in the chariots

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