Ocean Vuong

And I don't know if anyone has talked about that, but I think that was the major byproduct that your show did is that it made working class people who don't have access to centers of knowledge. They don't get to be in a classroom and have high philosophy around craft or what have you. They get to participate in the vehicle of culture and you make culture legible to them.

And I don't know if anyone has talked about that, but I think that was the major byproduct that your show did is that it made working class people who don't have access to centers of knowledge. They don't get to be in a classroom and have high philosophy around craft or what have you. They get to participate in the vehicle of culture and you make culture legible to them.

And I don't know if anyone has talked about that, but I think that was the major byproduct that your show did is that it made working class people who don't have access to centers of knowledge. They don't get to be in a classroom and have high philosophy around craft or what have you. They get to participate in the vehicle of culture and you make culture legible to them.

who often don't have that chance. So I just want to say thank you so much for that.

who often don't have that chance. So I just want to say thank you so much for that.

who often don't have that chance. So I just want to say thank you so much for that.

And we came up in Vietnam as rice farmers.

And we came up in Vietnam as rice farmers.

And we came up in Vietnam as rice farmers.

I was the first to go to college, the first to read. And we've been rice farmers very happily for hundreds of years. It was the war that ejected us from that idyllic world into this one. And so by geopolitical violence and accident, I'm now a professor in a way. But she knew that in this country, the sentence will be the medium that can make us change and change our lives.

I was the first to go to college, the first to read. And we've been rice farmers very happily for hundreds of years. It was the war that ejected us from that idyllic world into this one. And so by geopolitical violence and accident, I'm now a professor in a way. But she knew that in this country, the sentence will be the medium that can make us change and change our lives.

I was the first to go to college, the first to read. And we've been rice farmers very happily for hundreds of years. It was the war that ejected us from that idyllic world into this one. And so by geopolitical violence and accident, I'm now a professor in a way. But she knew that in this country, the sentence will be the medium that can make us change and change our lives.

She didn't understand it, but she knew it was powerful. So she would drop me off before her shift at the nail salon, at the public library. And she gave me this mandate. And she said, you go in there and you read everything, especially what you don't understand. Wow. And it's so interesting because that's what I give my students now. I said, you have to move towards the unknown, the mystery.

She didn't understand it, but she knew it was powerful. So she would drop me off before her shift at the nail salon, at the public library. And she gave me this mandate. And she said, you go in there and you read everything, especially what you don't understand. Wow. And it's so interesting because that's what I give my students now. I said, you have to move towards the unknown, the mystery.

She didn't understand it, but she knew it was powerful. So she would drop me off before her shift at the nail salon, at the public library. And she gave me this mandate. And she said, you go in there and you read everything, especially what you don't understand. Wow. And it's so interesting because that's what I give my students now. I said, you have to move towards the unknown, the mystery.

The condition of not knowing is the first step of knowledge.

The condition of not knowing is the first step of knowledge.

The condition of not knowing is the first step of knowledge.

Don't be afraid of not knowing. You owe it to yourself to go to the root of the mystery. And that is to work not only a pedagogy of an education, but also of life. It goes beyond books.

Don't be afraid of not knowing. You owe it to yourself to go to the root of the mystery. And that is to work not only a pedagogy of an education, but also of life. It goes beyond books.