Brave Teachers

“Progressive, holistic education…is more demanding than conventional pedagogy, for unlike these teaching practices, it emphasises well being.  That means the teachers must be actively committed to a process of self-actualization that promotes their own well being if they are to teach in a manner that empowers students… the practice of a healer, therapist, teacher or any helping professional should be directed toward his or her self first.”  - bell hooks

bell hooks, feminist scholar, educator, and author of Teaching to Transgress, The Will to Change, and many other books