Psychologists can be really helpful in creating opportunities for people to increase their level of awareness of bias. Psychologists can become very instrumental as teachers, as resource guides, as researchers, as facilitators of this learning process. I read a poem recently, one line of which was this: "If what you know doesn't change you, then change what you know." It sounds so simple. You've got to change what you know. And right now, what we know, basically, is
informed by what we have done in the past.
-- Terrence Roberts, Ph.D.
Click for the complete article just published in the January 2008 issue of The Monitor. Terrence Roberts was one of the courageous Black teenagers who, on September 4, 1957, integrated Little Rock Central High.
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Vic,
In the article, the author says:
"If what you know doesn't change you, then change what you know.
It sounds so simple. You've got to change what you know. And right now, what we know, basically, is informed by what we have done in the past."
I am living proof of this fact...going back to college in the middle years of my life has changed my life for ever! And just for that reason.
I challenged myself with new ideas and this gave me good reason to feel differently about the way I thought before about issues or in fact, to think of issues I had never thought of before!
This is why education is a wonderful experience for all ages, but especially for the non-traditional aged students who have had life experiences!
Debbie
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