Extraordinary Discourse 140 Special
Back to (ugh!) School A bag of anti-school cookies, fresh out of the oven! This podcast is dedicated to the school teachers I happen to love. Come sup with the great mavericks of "education." People who loved kids more than their careers. John Taylor Gatto, John Holt, Edgar Z Friedenberg, Jean Houston, Robert Anton Wilson, Marshall McLuhan, and more! Thanks to London Real for Tim Freke and much else besides. Here's the Unplugged Mom podcast This is the second in this podcast series to examine schooling. More of the same and different here . I recently received a beautiful paper from a school teacher who spent twenty-five or thirty years right in the front-line trenches, in the classroom. She gives the perspective that armchair generals sitting back in their ivory towers just don't have. Her title tells it all: "Torch This Tower." She states there is no facet of the American school situation which is at all redeemable and be...