the silenced dialogue

***is anyone Else's, pages all mixed up and missing in the packet??... its confusing, I'm jumping around all over the place!***
ok...so, this is what i got out of every other page:
Delpit is saying that there is no right way to teach and trying to force one, specific, code of teaching onto our teachers is going to, "ignore the natural rhythms of teaching and learning."
Each student learns a different way and reacts a different way to methods of teaching. Because of this, our teachers must learn there children's needs and adapt to them. A child looking back at there favorite teacher may be admiring the same teacher as another student despised or felt was to easy/ hard on the students. The silenced dialogue, itself, is what i believe to be the miscommunication between students and teachers as well as the elephant in the room/ "fire!" that no one is willing to mention; the things that are important, morally, in students lives, the things that we are afraid to mention: race, class, sex (in the male vs. female sense), sexual orientation, religion etc...and even on a less extreme level, the more personal things in life like ' does mommy or daddy cook?' whatever...These things will help prevent a school system with, what Delpit calls, "meaningless, mechanistic goals."
Delpit also touches on the issues of power, majority vs. minority and the lack of encouragement in school systems to teach or even touch upon the subject of race and other "moral issues." These issues tie in with, what i believe to be, the overall purpose of the essay, more diverse, adaptable teaching freedoms, because they are some of the main reasons WHY teachers need to adapt to there children's learning needs.
The issue of power is huge. we, the teachers have the power over what these children believe has or will happen, what they believe they can/ cant do or what they believe they are worth in some instances. Like Dr. Bogad said in class about thinking that she was bad at math; if people hadn't told her that she was bad, placed her in a lower level class, but, instead, told her she was great and gave her confidence, then shed believe she was great, shed believe that she had all the potential in the world. Teachers not only have a power over there students minds, but may have power over what type of power they may, some day, have. She says, "...if schooling prepares people for jobs, and the kind of job a person has determines hid or her economic status and, therefore, power, then schooling is intimately related to that power."
When she talked about majority vs. minority, it reminded me of something i read in 11th grade honors english. i wish i could remember something about it but if anyone has a clue what im talking about, please, fill me in. haha. A guy (thats my only description of him) wrote about the fact that the minority of just as important if not more important than the majority because they... i dunno, he went to jail for like a day... anyways, back on topic:
Delpit says, "the key is to understand the variety of meanings available for any human interaction, and not to assume that the voices of the majority speak for all." The quote kind of speaks for itself so i wont touch upon it furthar.
i guess im done now...oh yeah, her writing wasnt too hard to read, other than the fact that every other two pages were missing (that was a pain).