A Hard Look at School – Part 2
Last post, I included excerpts from an article titled “The Six-Lesson Schoolteacher” which got pretty long. Let’s continue that discussion here with personal observations. If you have not read the article I encourage it. http://www.ralphjordanblog.com/2010/02/a-hard-look-at-school-part-1/ I’m sure in reading the excerpts or the whole text we all could come up with examples where we can [...]
A Hard Look at School – part 1
A few weeks ago the homeschool group we are a part of circulated a 1991 letter that John Taylor Gatto had written right after he was named Teacher of the Year called the “The Six-Lesson Schoolteacher”. It is a clarifying view of the institution we have called Public Education (which really includes religious or private [...]