The classroom, with all its limitations, remains a location of possibility. In that field of possibility we have the opportunity t...o labor for freedom, to demand of ourselves and our comrades, an openness of mind and heart that allows us to face reality even as we collectively imagine ways to move beyond boundaries, to transgress. This is education as the practice of freedom.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
As for freedom, it will soon cease to exist in any shape or form. Living will depend upon absolute obedience to a strict set of ar...rangements, which it will no longer be possible to transgress. The air traveler is not free. In the future, life's passengers will be even less so: they will travel through their lives fastened to their (corporate) seats.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
But they who give straight judgements to strangers and to those of the land and do not transgress what is just, for them the city ...flourishes and its people prosper.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Let us beware of saying there are laws in nature. There are only necessities: there is no one to command, no one to obey, no one t...o transgress. When you realize there are no goals or objectives, then you realize, too, that there is no chance: for only in a world of objectives does the word "chance" have any meaning.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Unjust laws exist; shall we be content to obey them, or shall we endeavor to amend them, and obey them until we have succeeded, or... shall we transgress them at once? Men generally, under such a government as this, think that they ought to wait until they have persuaded the majority to alter them. They think that, if they should resist, the remedy would be worse than the evil. But it is the fault of the government itself that the remedy is worse than the evil. It makes it worse. Why is it not more apt to anticipate and provide for reform? Why does it not cherish its wise minority? Why does it cry and resist before it is hurt? Why does it not encourage its citizens to be on the alert to point out its faults, and do better than it would have them? Why does it always crucify Christ, and excommunicate Copernicus and Luther, and pronounce Washington and Franklin rebels?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Class is rarely talked about in the United States; nowhere is there a more intense silence about the reality of class differences ...than in educational settings.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »