9/7/2008
Chris picked this book up the other day. As usual, I’ll post when I’ve gotten into it (or finished it) and when I have some time. For now though, this quote of Holt’s from the editor’s foreword caught my eye.
Learning, to me, means making more sense of the world around us, and being able to [...]
reading learning all the time by john holt
October 27th, 2008
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Tags: books · learning · parenting · rationale · schooling · teaching
have you been crippled by public schooling?
October 15th, 2008
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We continue our critical discussion of education versus schooling in my composition course. The latest conversation has centered around three texts: John Gatto’s “Against School” and “The Seven Lesson School Teacher,” and Alfie Kohn’s “What Does It Mean to Be Well Educated?” Of the three, Gatto’s pieces are most provocative–or at least I thought they [...]
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