Baldwin writes that "The purpose of education, finally, is to create in a person the ability to look at the world for himself, to make his own decisions…" but, "I have yet to hear any EdTech expert or 21st century education guru refer to disruption in the transgressive sense that Baldwin was evoking 54 years ago," writes Julie Fellmayer. She has not been reading the same things I'm reading, evidently. But it doesn't matter, as the article takes a hard turn into the demand that we "teach in a manner that respects and cares for the souls of our students," which works out to be something like "self-actualization", which means to "sacrifice privilege" and " to immerse yourself in the work of as many POC, feminist, activist, and academic writers, bloggers, podcasters and tweeters as possible."
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