Evaluation/Summary Oct. 4, 2002 Keeping Close to Home: Class and Education I decided to evaluate an excerpt from the book The Presence of Others. This selection, entitled Keeping Close to Home: Class and Education, was written by Bell Hooks, and is taken from her book Talking Back, published in 1989. Hooks is the author of many other volumes, including Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center (1984), Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom (1994), and Remembered Rapture: …showed first 75 words of 1722 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1722 total…when she was set apart from the crowd, it was due to her background and where she came from. I think she best put it when she said, "Education as the practice of freedom becomes not a force which fragments of separates, but one that brings us closer, expanding our definitions of home and community." This is her goal: to no longer experience education as the "practice of exclusion," but as the "practice of freedom."