Middleclass Quotes

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bell hooks
“I have found that students from upper- and middleclass backgrounds are disturbed if heated exchange takes place in the classroom. Many of them equate loud talk or interruptions with rude and threatening behavior. Yet those of us from working-class backgrounds may feel that discussion is deeper and richer if it arouses intense responses.”
bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom