To teach responsibly is to acknowledge the limits of what kn... - Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

"To teach responsibly is to acknowledge the limits of what knowledge can accomplish."

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Patience

Scholar, Postcolonial Theorist Indian-American Born 1942 (age 84)

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