Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom

Synopsis

"after reading teaching to transgress i am once again struck by bell hooks's never-ending, unquiet intellectual energy, an energy that makes her radical and loving. " -- paulo freirein teaching to transgress, bell hooks--writer, teacher, and insurgent black intellectual--writes about a new kind of education, education as the practice of freedom. Teaching students to "transgress" against racial, sexual, and class boundaries in order to achieve the gift of freedom is, for hooks, the teacher's most important goal.