Seeing Color, Seeing Culture

I loved this article. As I was reading I found almost everything that was said to cause me to question my pre-conceived thoughts.

" . . she lived children and the idea that she could expose them to new experiences" (30).
-Similar to Mrs. Gray I am so excited to be able to expose my future students to "new experiences"

I am a very liberal person and before reading this article I thought that treating children of all races, ethnicity's, and religions equally was the most "fair" and honest way. I would have agreed with what is mentioned in the article at one point, "I don't care if they're red, green, or polka dot, I just treat them all like children" (31). Now I can see that this is not a good tactic. In order to be open-minded we can't put on blinders and pretend we don't see what is in front of us. Because when we acknowledge these differences we are being aware, not at all racist, as some people may fear. As teachers we need to acknowledge and value differences.