The work of teachers is not just to teach.
We are also responsible for the basic needs of students - helping students eat and live, and also helping them find the tools they need to reflect on the present moment.
This is in keeping with Freire's insistence that critical pedagogy be focused on helping students read their world; but more and more, we must together reckon with that world.
Teaching must be an act of imagination, hope, and possibility.
Education must be a practice done with hearts as.