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Teachers as Butchers The best teachers are butchers – sizing up objects quickly knowing exactly where meat is and how to carve out a living. They move past superficiality and get down to the bones of each issue without a trace of fear Instruments of violence, they're strangely compassionate: with swift pedagogical hacks students are anesthetized & put in nooks No one obsessed with decorum can teach transformatively – deep change doesn't come by doing what others want to see. Caring instructors dig below the flesh: they're razor-sharp & fearless Even if they get bloody they're aloof from the whole affair: whistling while slicing off prejudice and breathing calmly while yanking gizzards – their consciousness is above the chopping board of the classrooms where they fare |
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