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I see education as assisting students to develop a critical approach and encouraging them to assess their own beliefs, and not only as transmitting knowledge. If students are able to do both, they will be led to create new ideas, and therefore to become agents of the change they wish to see in the world. In order to achieve this, I find it important to foster a collaborative learning environment. This means generating a strong and intellectually diverse curriculum and an environment that conjures opportunities for mutual learning. It is in this dialogue between students and teachers, mediated by different theoretical traditions and approaches that I believe students develop their ability to think beyond the walls of the classroom.
As Paulo Freire argued, teaching is to be in a constant dialogue with the students, the authors you are studying and yourself. If openness and spontaneity are preserved along these structural and dialogic lines, it is perpetually possible – for both the teacher and the student – to find new sources of inspiration.