November 1, 2009
Trying to Engage Students Can Break Your Heart
In my developmental English class recently, a student raised her hand and said, after a brief discussion of the caste system in Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, "I've felt like an Epsilon all my life." Epsilons made up the lowest caste of Huxley's dystopian civilization. They were conditioned from birth to accept their place, to never even dream of upward mobility. I told this class, made up of mostly low-income students, that unlike Huxley's Epsilons, they had the ability to move
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