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Book: Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom
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  1. bell hooks _ Teaching to Transgress:

    If we give our children sound self-love, they will be able to deal with whatever life puts before them.
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  2. bell hooks _ Teaching to Transgress:

    Many women do not join organized resis­tance against sexism precisely because sexism has not meant an absolute lack of choices. They may know they are discriminated against on the basis of sex, but they do not equate this with oppres­sion. Under capitalism, patriarchy is structured so that sexism restricts women's behavior in some realms even as freedom from limitations is allowed in other spheres. The absence of extreme re­strictions leads many women to ignore the areas in which they are exploited or discriminated against; it may even lead them to imagine that no women are oppressed.
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  3. bell hooks _ Teaching to Transgress:

    The classroom remains the most radical space of possibility in the academy
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  4. bell hooks _ Teaching to Transgress:

    There are times when personal experience keeps us from reaching the mountain top and so we let it go because the weight of it is too heavy. And sometimes the mountain top is difficult to reach with all our resources, factual and confessional, so we are just there, collectively grasping, feeling the limitations of knowledge, longing together, yearning for a way to reach that highest point. Even this yearning is a way to know.
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