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'I Won't Learn from You': And Other Thoughts on Creative MaladjustmentHerbert Kohl
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'I Won't Learn from You': And Other Thoughts on Creative MaladjustmentHerbert Kohl
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"I Won't Learn From You," Herb Kohl's now-classic essay on "not learning," or refusing to learn, is available for the first time in an affordable paperback edition along with four other landmark essays. Drawing on a concept set forth by Martin Luther king Jr., Kohl argues for "creative maladjustment" in the classroom and anywhere else that students' intelligence, dignity, or integrity are compromised by a teacher, an institution, or a larger social mind-set. This volume aslo includes "The Tattooed Man," Kohl's autobiographical essay about "hopemongering," which Kohl finds essential for all effective teaching in these difficult times.
"One of the most important books on teaching published in many years.... Wise and tender, written with the deepest love for children. I will go back to it again and again for strength in future years." -Jonathan Kozol
"Must reading... for anyone looking for the humanity buried in the long debate about why Johnny can't read." -Kirkus Reviews
"An important new book on teaching... Thoughtful and readable." -Education Today
"A brillant guide to what Kohl calls 'creative maladjustment.'" -San Francisco Chronicle
"If there is hope at all for those who struggle for success in school environments characterized increasingly by cultural, racial, economic, and linguistic diversity, then messages such as this one must be heeded." -Asa Hilliard
"Herb Kohl at his provocative best, pushing us to think in fresh, unsetting ways about teaching and learning." -Mike Rose, author of Lives on the Boundary
"An intensely personal book that challenges conventional wisdom and inspires all of us who care fiercely about children and eduction." -Senator Paul D. Wellstone.
Herb Kohl is one of the country's leading educators and the author of many books, includint 36 Children, Reading: How To, The Open Classroom, and Growing Minds. He is currently director of the Costal Ridge Research and Education Center in Point Arena, California.
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