Lives on the Boundary-1

This will be a short introductory post leading to, hopefully, a larger one. I almost finished reading Lives on the Boundary, and I have been enjoying it immensely. You had to read something like Pedagogy of the Oppressed in order to thoroughly appreciate the ease and grace of Mike Rose's prose. Also, even though Freire's ideas were groundbreaking, and I could definitely see parallels to the contemporary society, it was hardly a very engaging reading. It reminded me of the works of John Dewey in a sense that while Dewey's work was also groundbreaking, he was, and is, often being misinterpreted due to, as some critics suggest, the lack of clarity of expression. Reading texts like that is akin to trying to decipher a meaning of a contemporary piece of artwork... most of those pieces are not about the form but about a concept. At any rate, not only was Mike Rose's text more engaging and enjoyable, I was able to relate to it more. A lot more, in fact, even though I come from a completely different background than the one Rose is describing. This is what I want to write about in the second post which will follow shortly.