{"id":80281,"date":"2022-04-21T12:08:51","date_gmt":"2022-04-21T16:08:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=80281"},"modified":"2022-04-21T12:10:23","modified_gmt":"2022-04-21T16:10:23","slug":"i-grew-up-believing-i-was-dumb-a-college-education-behind-bars-healed-that-wound-blackwell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2022\/04\/21\/i-grew-up-believing-i-was-dumb-a-college-education-behind-bars-healed-that-wound-blackwell\/","title":{"rendered":"I Grew Up Believing I Was Dumb. A College Education Behind Bars Healed That Wound [Blackwell]"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">I Grew Up Believing I Was Dumb. A College Education Behind Bars Healed That Wound <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/PsUZ2LyOxa\">https:\/\/t.co\/PsUZ2LyOxa<\/a> via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MarshallProj?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@MarshallProj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Paul Czarapata (@pczarapata) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/pczarapata\/status\/1517126020352065537?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 21, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>Seeing the possibilities, I finally took a chance. I studied English, political science and finite math, and each class I passed deepened my confidence and self-love.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>This growing self-love was key to my academic development. Growing up, I didn\u2019t experience much real love, outside of my mother and a few family members. I most often encountered the kind of false love expressed through violence and monetary possessions. College changed the way I thought about myself and others. I worked hand-in-hand with men from all backgrounds to complete assignments, and even taught other students. Before I knew it, I was getting A\u2019s on my essays and solving quadratic equations in math class.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nWhen people question why it\u2019s important to educate prisoners, I remind them that to see change, we must support change. We must give individuals the opportunity to see themselves as more than the harm they&#8217;ve caused, more than what was once broken within them.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>Christopher Blackwell<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Also relevant\/see:<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/calvin.edu\/prison-initiative\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-80285 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/CalvinPrisonInitiative2Apr22-1024x470.jpg\" alt=\"Calvin University's Prison Initiative\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" srcset=\"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/CalvinPrisonInitiative2Apr22-1024x470.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/CalvinPrisonInitiative2Apr22-150x69.jpg 150w, https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/CalvinPrisonInitiative2Apr22-768x353.jpg 768w, https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/CalvinPrisonInitiative2Apr22.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-80284\" src=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/UniversityBehindBars-Apr22-1024x573.jpg\" alt=\"University Behind Bars\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" srcset=\"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/UniversityBehindBars-Apr22-1024x573.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/UniversityBehindBars-Apr22-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/UniversityBehindBars-Apr22-768x429.jpg 768w, https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/UniversityBehindBars-Apr22.jpg 1193w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I Grew Up Believing I Was Dumb. A College Education Behind Bars Healed That Wound https:\/\/t.co\/PsUZ2LyOxa via @MarshallProj \u2014 Paul Czarapata (@pczarapata) April 21, 2022 Seeing the possibilities, I finally took a chance. I studied English, political science and finite math, and each class I passed deepened my confidence and self-love. This growing self-love was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[832,374,86,127,115,498,302,343,347,848,500,3,825,7,559,87,833,285,15,406,279,436,855,480,293],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-access-to-justice","category-adult-learning","category-change","category-collaboration","category-colleges","category-communities-of-practice","category-community-colleges","category-education","category-education-reform","category-emotion","category-hearts-matters-of-the-heart","category-higher-education","category-law-schools","category-learning-ecosystem","category-learning-hubs","category-learning-spaces","category-legal-reform","category-legislation-legislatures","category-lifelong-learning","category-motivation","category-participation","category-reinvent","category-skills","category-society","category-sociology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80281"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80287,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80281\/revisions\/80287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}