A In “desegregated white schools” she experienced the practice of freedom.
B In graduate school, the classroom was a place she loved as she could be an independent thinker.
C In “all-black grade schools” she experienced joy and loved learning as she could learn ideas that ran counter to values and beliefs learned at home.
D The teachers in undergraduate school were excited about teaching and understood education as the practice of freedom, so she felt it was a place of promise and possibility.
E Her professors at graduate school introduced her to Paulo Freire’s ideas and she learned she wanted to be like them.