Why the Classroom Is a Sacred Place for Me and Why I’ll Keep Venturing Out into “No-Man’s land”… Even during These Abortion Wars

Authors

Rose Holz, University of Nebraska - LincolnFollow

Date of this Version

2-2017

Citation

Published in The American Historian, 11 (February 2017).

Comments

Copyright (c) 2017 OAH.

Abstract

The classroom, as I see it, is not a place where I impose my views. It is a place for the free exchange of ideas even—no, especially—if they differ from my own. Otherwise, how else are we going to learn? Otherwise, how else are we going to get to know each other—maybe even like each other—even if sometimes we hold radically different views? And of course again, I would be lying if I didn’t mention just how many times I’ve miserably failed in this regard. But I’m also happy to report how over the years I’ve managed to achieve a few moments of success, in particular when facilitating conversations about abortion.