Abstract
In Ernest Gaines’s novel A Lesson Before Dying, a dying man’s salvation is contrasted with his education as a human being with dignity. Using Gaines’s parable of a dying man’s education while on death row to reflect on what mattered to Stephen Resnick in the classroom, this essay explores what it is to imagine and then see the world differently than what we’re accustomed to, examining what teaching is from the perspective of what is learned, what is produced in a classroom knowledge process. Resnick, in his reading of Marx’s Capital, cultivated capacities in his students by questioning class and “naturalized” capitalism. His pedagogical insight points students toward the value of dignity and worth in human life and labor.
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