Honky, was a very interesting book. This book put a lot of things into prospective for me. At first I did not realize that honky was a racial slur against white people. I think the thing that I learned the most is that you can't make any quick judgments about anybody based on where they live, their skin color, etc... There are so many different single stories out there, and they are probably wrong.
I really enjoyed how once the author went to a different school, and made some new friends, his desire to learn new things skyrocketed. Because of this desire he spent so much time and effort to learn the mysteries of math and science. This leads me to believe that everyone wants to learn they just need help finding what interests them the most. As a teacher, I plan on trying to make connections with a lot of different things so that everybody can have a chance finding out what interests them the most, leading to a stronger desire to learn mathematics. All to often I think teachers are not ready to help a student get past their "past" and find out what they are really made of.
I thought it was really neat how at first the author was "ignorant" of his ethnicity and how it varied from others. What would happen if we could have that ignorance at our age. Would this make the world a better place? Teachers are in a very good spot to be able to help others break down these misconceptions about other races and ethnicities and help students become "one" regardless of backgrounds.
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