Questões de Concurso Público Prefeitura de Vitória - ES 2019 para Professor de Educação Básica III – PEB III – Língua Inglesa

Read this excerpt from one of the previous texts:
“Multiculturalism compels educators to recognize the narrow boundaries that have shaped the way knowledge is shared in the classroom. It forces us all to recognize our complicity in accepting and perpetuating biases of any kind. Students are eager to break through barriers to knowing. They are willing to surrender to the wonder of relearning and learning ways of knowing that go against the grain. When we, as educators, allow our pedagogy to be radically changed by our recognition of a multicultural world, we can give students the education they desire and deserve. We can teach in ways that transform consciousness, creating a climate of free expression that is the essence of education.”
About the expression “break through barriers” and the expression “go against the grain”, it is correct to say that:

Read this excerpt from one of the previous texts:
“I have taught brilliant students of color, many of them seniors, Students of color, many of them seniors, who have skillfully managed never to speak in classroom settings. Some express the feeling that they are less likely to suffer any kind of assault if they simply do not assert their subjectivity.”
The words “skillfully” and “simply” can be related in terms of language because they are:

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There must be training sites where teachers have the opportunity to express those concerns while also learning to come up with ways to approach the multicultural classroom and curriculum.”
The phrasal verb highlighted above means: