Thanks a lot for your thoughtful walking through my message -- I learned a
lot. I have to catch my flight to Germany but I can't miss an opportunity
to connect two dialogues that I'm part of.
I wrote,
>>I personally do not expect to see mass change of schooling in my life but
I
>>want to work on rebuilding of institutional education. Diane is right
that
>>assumptions that we have learned by just being here is so difficult to see
>>or change.
Diane replied,
>I'm not sure it's so difficult see as it is incomprehensible; that is,
>difficult to
>understand - not "too hard" to understand, but too complex. And
>
>most of the analytical tools we rely upon invariably seem to be used in
>ways that make
>it simple to see, or less complex for understanding... which may be what
drives
>
>assumptions about schools, too. That mytht of simplicity. (or is that
>the myth of Sisyphus?)
Bearing in mind Bakhtin, I think it is possible to reveal and change our
assumptions if we start making efforts to look into eyes of others (who are
not "us") to learn about ourselves. As a teacher, I'm not a student, I'm
looking in eyes of my students and see their suffering that I'm causing.
That scares me to death and I want to change.
Eugene