"A teacher in search of his/her own freedom may be the only kind of teacher who can arouse young persons to go in search of their own"

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Source : Maxine Greene “The Dialectic of Freedom”, Teachers College Press

Maxine Greene

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“If we are to preserve culture we must continue to create it.”
“To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else”
“Crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think.”
“Wild rivers are earth's renegades, defying gravity, dancing to their own tunes, resisting the authority of humans, always chipping away, and eventually always winning.”
“Took two drags off the blunts, and started breaking down the flag: The blue is for the Crips, the red is for the Bloods, The whites for the cops, and the stars come from the clubs Or the slugs that ignite, through the night, By the dawn early light, why is sons fighting for the stripe?”
“Race and class are extremely reliable indicators as to where one might find the good stuff, like parks and trees, and where one might find the bad stuff, like power plants and waste facilities.”

Source : "Greening the ghetto". TED conference, www.ted.com. February 2006.
“The grand canyon which yawns between the writer's concept of what he wants to capture in words and what comes through is a cruel abyss.”
“Being a language, mathematics may be used not only to inform but also, among other things, to seduce.”

Source : "Fractals: Form, Chance and Dimension". Book by Benoit Mandelbrot, 1977.

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