WHY?
These are powerful words and concepts that recur throughout Maxine Greene’s essay. What could they possibly mean?
- commitment
- awareness
- consciousness
- indifference
- mechanical life
- the system
- agency
Let us dare to read this excerpt out loud; for one of us to begin and for the next to start after a few words or a sentence, maybe two. I invite the current reader to yield to the next reader and for the process to continue until the end of the excerpt. Let’s be wide-awake as we encounter Maxine Greene.