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Teacher Preparation Should Go Beyond The Technical Preparation Of Teachers And Be Rooted In The Ethical Formation Both Of Selves And Of History.

... Teaching Cannot Be A Process Of Transference Of Knowledge From The One Teaching To The Learner. This Is The Mechanical Transference From Which Results Machinelike Memorization, Which I Have Already Criticized. Critical Study Correlates With Teaching That Is Equally Critical, Which Necessarily Demands A Critical Way Of Comprehending And Of Realizing The Reading Of The Word And That Of The World, The Reading Of Text And Of Context.

The Earliest Language Was Body Language And, Since This Language Is The Language Of Questions, If We Limit The Questions, And If We Only Pay Attention To Or Place Values On Spoken Or Written Language, Then We Are Ruling Out A Large Area Of Human Language.

Coherently Democratic Authority Carries The Conviction That True Discipline Does Not Exist In The Muteness Of Those Who Have Been Silenced But In The Stirrings Of Those Who Have Been Challenged, In The Doubt Of Those Who Have Been Prodded, And In The Hopes Of Those Who Have Been Awakened.

It Is Not Possible To Remake This Country, To Democratize It, Humanize It, Make It Serious, As Long As We Have Teenagers Killing People For Play And Offending Life, Destroying The Dream, And Making Love Unviable. If Education Alone Cannot Transform Society, Without It Society Cannot Change Either.