Word: reade
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...admit that I loved this question, and it was not pride or conceit but rather a kind of benign excitement that I felt when I told my friends that I was going to live in an Aboriginal community in Central Australia, where I would teach Aboriginal children how to read...
...grew to know a vibrant culture, and I grew to admire a group of people who had neither interest in nor need for "white man's magic"--education. When I wanted to read, the kids suggested that we play basketball--all 50 of us--and usually the kids...
...could have told him about the mysteries of science and the magical stories of history, and I could have explained to him that in order to get a job in town and escape the third-world living conditions of the community he would need to know how to read and do basic math. But the truth was John didn't want to work in town. He never wanted to leave the community of Atitjere, and he was happy enough with the legends that his grandmother told him and the wondrous science of his cousin, the witchdoctor...
Education is my life, and to John it meant nothing. And although it seemed self-defeating to admit it, I really couldn't say that I wanted to change that. John didn't desire to read, and I didn't have the desire or hubris to tell him that he was wrong...
...personal commitment to education did not diminish this summer, but my ability to evaluate my service efforts within a social and cultural context certainly increased. The kids at Atitjere weren't looking for someone to help them read. They were looking for someone to understand them. Daniel B. Baer '00 is a social studies and Afro-American studies concentrator in Quincy House...