Ricardo Rosa - Teachers Make a Difference

The transcript discusses the speaker's educational journey, highlighting the influence of storytelling in West Africa, hip hop culture, and key educators. Storytelling provided a rich cultural education, while hip hop and Malcolm X's autobiography helped articulate social and political realities. Influential teachers and professors at community college and graduate studies further shaped the speaker's understanding of education and language politics.

What role did the West African storytellers play in the narrator's education?

• They introduced the narrator to hip hop music.

• They offered cultural stories that subverted colonialism.

• They provided formal education.

• They taught the narrator how to read.

How did hip hop culture influence the narrator's understanding of their environment?

• It introduced them to classical music.

• It encouraged them to pursue a career in music.

• It made them focus solely on economic issues.

• It helped them articulate their experiences and understand societal issues.

How did the narrator's experience with hip hop music and Malcolm X's autobiography help them?

• It discouraged them from reading further.

• It led them to pursue a career in music.

• It helped them name their institutional challenges.

• It made them focus on sports.

What was unique about Mrs. Anderson's teaching approach?

• She focused on traditional pedagogy.

• She introduced the narrator to hip hop culture.

• She was a union representative who challenged authority.

• She used storytelling as a teaching method.

What was the impact of Professor Barbara Napoli on the narrator's academic journey?

• She recommended books that led to a scholarship.

• She offered a course on mathematics.

• She discouraged the narrator from reading.

• She introduced the narrator to hip hop music.

Which professor recommended the narrator to the honors program?

• Kenneth Anannya

• Barbara Napoli

• Donaldo Macedo

• Mrs. Anderson

What did Donaldo Macedo teach the narrator about?

• The politics of language

• Mathematics

• Classical music

• Hip hop culture