“The Silenced Dialogue: Power and Pedagogy in Educating Other People's Children”

     “The Silenced Dialogue: Power and Pedagogy in Educating Other People's Children” by Lisa Delpit, is an empowering piece discussing the culture of power that exists in schools systems. I found this article extremely interesting and eye opening. Lisa Delpit's argument is how teachers base their curriculum and education techniques around students of color or Native American students this also includes teachers of a different ethnicity. Delpit also discusses how teachers of color even teach African American students and Native American students differently than white teachers do. One of her main explanations for this is because white educators do not listen to the educators that are of color, they hear but do not actually listen or take into concern their main concerns of the difference of philosophies and how students of the minority shouldn't be taught differently. She hopes that future educators will learn how to listen to educators of color.

     One of my concerns is that teachers and educators will continue to blame the students for why they are not learning or why they are not caught up with the rest of the class. This is hard because overall everyone believes in different philosophies and have different ways of teaching that they think are the most effective. I think that sometimes a lot of people will be offended if they are criticized on the way they teach when they really shouldn't. Teachers are not really in school to learn, the students are and if the students are not learning the teachers need to adapt of accommodate the students needs that fits best or is most effective.