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In history, I was taught that the Scottish explorer Mungo Park discovered the Niger River.
And growing up in the South in the '80s and '90s, we were taught propaganda about North Korea.
But also understand their mistakes, because, as women in particular, we're taught that if something doesn't work out, it's probably our fault.
Men were taught to be men in the ways in which we are not women, that's essentially what it is.
So, at this point, Natasha doesn't speak a word of English, other than what little Father Keane taught her.
Economics taught in most of the elite universities are practically useless in my context.
And because it was full of immigrant workers, Mom taught herself words from translation books.
Her call clarified what I am trying to do with my life and in my work as a writer, which is to send one simple message: the way we're taught to live has got to change.
We're taught to hide so many parts of who we are and what we've been through: our love, our pain, for some, our faith.
That was the place from which I hoped to work, headed in the only direction worth going, the direction of myself, trying to help us all refuse the awful bargains we've been taught to take.
We're taught to turn ourselves and our work into little nuggets that are easily digestible; taught to mutilate ourselves so that we make sense to others, to be a stranger to ourselves so the right people might befriend us and the right schools might accept us, and the right jobs might hire us, and the right parties might invite us, and, someday, the right God might invite us to the right heaven and close his pearly gates behind us, so we can bow down to Him forever and ever.
I preemptively kept the peace, and I taught my daughter to do the same thing.
And I knew it wasn't a nice "Thanks, Mom." (Laughter) So I learned that life had taught me some lessons.
It taught me, if I had not served on that jury, that I would still be of the same mindset.
We're always being taught that we're supposed to know what we want to do when we grow up.
And I've taught her "Phoenix," "come here," "take this," "go to" and the name of my son, "Jamie."
And I think this whole notion of these skills should be taught.
This should be taught in schools.
Read that great piece in the New Yorker about how our echo boomers, 19 to 25, over in Iraq taught each other how to do Sys Admin work, over the Internet in chat rooms.
You see, when I was studying to become a therapist, I wasn't taught how to work with transgender patients.
But guys, if history has taught us anything, it's that if you can imagine it, you will get there eventually.
The way they teach anatomy is similar to the way they taught anatomy 100 years ago.
And as it turned out, these guys really taught me a thing or two about blending in with the locals.
Unfortunately, in our societies around the world, women are taught to be victims.
Women are not taught that they are going to have to defend themselves, that they're going to have to support themselves and they have to protect themselves.
But that taught me a lesson.
That taught me that I had a voice.
Well, Mr. Ross also taught many of us many other things, including Cesar Chavez and many other volunteers.
And he taught us not only that we can make demands of people, especially our public officials.
The other thing that Mr. Ross taught us is that voting is extremely important.
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