Critical Multicultural Teaching Toolkit

WHEN STUDENTS LOOK WITHIN THEMSELVES, THEY CAN BEGIN TO MAKE ART ABOUT WHAT MATTERS IN THEIR LIVES

I just want to thank you because you are very, very special people. You were here long before any of us were here ... Although we have a representative in Congress who they say was here a long time ago. They call her Pocahontas.

"Our capacity to value art is severely corrupted and perverted by a politics of the visual that suggests we must limit our responses to the narrow confines of a debate over good versus bas images. How can we truly see experience, and appreciate all that may be present in any work of art if our only concern is whether it shows us a positive or negative image?

This willingness continually to revise one's own location in order to place oneself in the path of beauty is the basic impulse underlying education. One submits oneself to other minds (teachers) in order to increase the chance that one will be looking in the right direction when a comet makes its sweep through a certain patch of sky.