[news] Radical Teaching

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"....I readily plead guilty to not being neutral about the topics addressed in my own courses, from sexism, racism and homophobia to what I view as the destructive nature of globalizing corporate capitalism, virulent nationalism and the misuses of religion. As a student I was invariably put off by teachers who feigned neutrality about the grievous state of our world: 'Okay, Native Americans (or holocaust survivors, domestic abuse victims, starving children in Africa, etc.) we've heard your story, now let's be fair and give equal moral weight to the other side!'"

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/6/4/133754/2237