Critical Pedagogy Reader

What time is the right time to say something and when is it time not to say anything at all? If teachers don’t talk about important topics that students are hearing about everyday then how will they think of the teacher? If the teacher talks about politics every day and tells the students what their opinions are is that not tell the students how to think? I think that it is important that teachers talk about some topics with their students; however, there are some topics that should be left out of the classroom. If a teacher can talk about a topic without making their personal feelings about the topic evident than it would be ok for the teacher to talk about it to an extent; if a teacher ever starts telling the students how to think and act then the teacher needs to move away from that topic.

This connects to teachers being oppressors. If a teacher pushes their ideals on their students then they are oppressing the students from pushing out of what they are being taught. We should encourage students to collect lots of information from lots of different sources before settling on one point of view. Without allowing the students to obtain more information we are telling them their there is only one set of information is correct and that all other opinions are not worthwhile. Students are teachers and teachers are students. We all are learning every day and sometimes we can learn from each other in a deeper way than we even thought was possible. A teacher can give or take away a passion for learning, but a student can give a passion to teachers that they did not even know about in the first place. It is important for there to be common ground between teacher and student.