The Power of Breaking Bread: Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn Host Tucker Carlson and Andrew Breitbart for Dinner | The Classroom Sooth

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The Power of Breaking Bread: Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn Host Tucker Carlson and Andrew Breitbart for Dinner

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“Good teaching requires audacity, but demands humility.” 
-William Ayers, The Mystery of Teaching
The following is a reflection by educator and activist William Ayers, on his hosting of Tucker Carlson and five friends (including the late Andrew Breitbart) for dinner.  Carlson bid for the dinner as a fundraiser in support of the Illinois Humanities Council.  
Hosting your purported “diametric opposite” for a dinner demonstrates both audacity and humility.  Ayers reflects on the internal and external challenges and questions he wrestled with in preparation for the event, and then