"The intellectual problem I work through in the villages is how minds that for thousands of years have been denied the right to think independently can be taught a mode of intellectual thinking modeled on imaginative activism. I’m not lecturing students on democracy; I’m teaching them English, Bengali, arithmetic, geography—the West Bengali state curriculum. But it’s the way in which we teach these subjects that matters. One of the things I do is try to make them feel that people who are really smart don’t always answer the questions the teacher asks. If one looks at Fanon, he knows that one of the real problems in a post-colonial situation is the existence of leaders, and the aspiration to be a leader. What he’s talking about, what I’m talking about, what Gramsci was talking about, is that in the usual, everyday structure of government, like that in the United States, there is this kind of leadership complex, and that’s very harmful—it’s totally undemocratic" (Trecho de uma interssantíssima entrevista com a importante pensadora indiana contemporânea Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak) 
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