Episode 6: Centering the Sacred While Going Back to School

“To teach in a manner that respects and cares for the souls of our students is essential if we are to provide the necessary conditions where learning can most deeply and intimately begin.”

— bell hooks

“Progressive education, education as the practice of freedom, enables us to confront feelings of loss and restore our sense of connection. It teaches us how to create community.”

— bell hooks

“When educators evaluate reasons some students fail and others succeed they rarely talk about the role of shame as a barrier to learning.”

— bell hooks

“When you control a man’s thinking you do not have to worry about his actions, You do not have to tell him not to stand he or go yonder . he will find his ‘proper’ place and will stay in it. You do not have to send him to the back door. he will go without being told”

— Carter G. Woodson

“The goal of a knowledge arising from love is the reunification and reconstruction of broken selves and worlds. A knowledge born of compassion aims not at exploiting and manipulating creation but at reconciling the world to itself.”

— Parker Palmer

“But a knowledge that springs from love will implicate us in the web of life; it will wrap the knower and the known in compassion, in a bond of awesome responsibility as well as transforming joy; it will call us to involvement, mutuality, accountability.”

— Parker Palmer