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Giroux on Education

Henry Giroux states, in “Obama and the Promise of Education“:
One of the most important challenges, especially for educators, facing the US in a post-Bush period, is to take seriously the educational force of a culture that is central to constructing a new type of citizen. What is needed are citizens defined less through the hatred [...]

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Question 2

Does authority equal responsibility?

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Hector: Family Man, but Hero First

Hector: Family Man, but Hero First

For in my heart and soul I know this well:
the day will come when sacred Troy must die, [. . .]
That is nothing, nothing beside your agony
when some brazen Argive hales you off in tears,
wrenching away your day of light and freedom!
–Hector to Andromache, the Iliad, VI.396-97, 405-07
Book VI of Homer’s Iliad shows the contention [...]

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Poor, Confusing Elpenor

Poor, Confusing Elpenor

Near the end of his stay with Circe in Book X of the Odyssey, Odysseus and crew prepare to leave Aiaia and head for the Underworld. It wasn’t his idea: Circe told him to go to hell. Well, what does he expect? He hung out with her for a year, ate her food, shared her [...]

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