STRUGGLE: HOW CAN WE STRUGGLE TO BE MORE EFFECTIVE TEACHERS AND BUILD BETTER SCHOOLS?

Frederick Douglass, born a slave in Maryland in 1817, escaped to freedom as a young man and became an abolitionist, author, orator, U.S. government official, and an international spokesperson for human rights. In a letter written in 1849, Douglass argued, “The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims have been born of earnest struggle If there is no struggle, there is no progress” (Seldes, 1966, p. 214).