Abstract
We start this chapter by exploring Jacques Ranciere’s (The ignorant school master: Five lessons in intellectual emancipation (K. Ross, Trans.). Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1991) The ignorant school master: Five lessons in intellectual emancipation, and pay particular attention to his depiction of the encounter between the French professor, Joseph Jacotot, and his Flemish students. In this regard, we will consider how Jacotot, as a teacher, assumes equal intelligence by summoning his students to come to their own speech. Secondly, we continue our exploration of The ignorant school master by examining the concepts of equality and emancipation in relation to tolerance. And thirdly, we draw on Maxine Greene (Variations on a blue guitar: The Lincoln Center Institute lectures on aesthetic education. New York, NY: Teachers College Press, 2001) in discussing how teachers might use educational encounters to open doors for students, so that they might engage with the world around them with renewed insight, so that their imaginations might be awakened and released.
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