'I Won't Learn from You' - by Herbert R Kohl (Paperback)

Number of Pages: 176
Genre: Education
Sub-Genre: General
Format: Paperback
Publisher: New Press
Age Range: Adult
Author: Herbert R Kohl
Language: English

About the Book

Essays, previously published in somewhat different form by Milkweed Editions, Minneapolis.

Book Synopsis

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 an idea of Martin Luther King Jr.'s, 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 mindset.

This volume also includes The Tattooed Man, Kohl's autobiographical essay about hopemongering, which Kohl finds essential for all effective teaching in these difficult times.

Review Quotes

There is more insight in these pages than in many longer works.
--The Progressive

About the Author

Herbert Kohl is one of the country's leading educators and the author of more than forty books, including the classic 36 Children. Recipient of the National Book Award and the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, among others, he was founder and first director of the Teachers and Writers Collaborative and established the PEN West Center in San Francisco. Kohl lives in Point Arena, California.