As an aspiring teacher, Critical Pedagogy: Notes from the Real World by Joan Wink gave me useful knowledge on how to make an affect on children and gave me a different perspective of myself as a teacher as well as a student. The book is written in a way where the reader is enaged in critical pedagogy and interacts with the text while "learning, relearning and unlearning" previous ideas.The aspect that impacted me the most is her emphasis on the learning process that teachers (not just students) go through. Through personal examples she stresses the things that both teachers and students can do by their conscientization and histories, rather than what they can't do. This gave me hope that when I step foot in my classroom I can affect the lives of my students, even if other teachers have written them off as failures.