Liberating Education: How a Creative Artist Coped with Bad Schooling

Tuesday, January 6, 2009

You've got to see this video of Willard Wigan and his microscopic sculptures. His comments about schooling are heart-wrenching, but inspiring. (Hat tip to Karen Minto.)

Books I like

Becoming a Person by Carl Rogers
Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Education in a Free Society ed. by Ann Husted Burleigh
From Childhood to Adolescence by Maria Montessori
Habits of Mind by William B. Allen and Carol M. Allen
Montessori, Dewey, and Capitalism by Jerry Kirkpatrick
Montessori: The Science Behind the Genius by Angelina Lillard
Mr. Jefferson's University by Gary Wills
Radical Vision: Stringfellow Barr, Scott Buchanan, and Their Efforts on Behalf of Education and Politics in the Twentieth Century by Charles A. Nelson
The Act of Creation by Arthur Koestler
Spontaneous Activity in Education by Maria Montessori
The Formation of Man by Maria Montessori
The Habit of Thought: From Socratic Seminars to Socratic Practice by Michael Strong
The Creation of Conscious Culture Through Educational Innovation by Michael Strong
The Idea of a University by John Henry Newman
The New Left: The Anti-Industrial Revolution by Ayn Rand
The Shadow University by AlanCharles Kors and Harvey A. Silvergate

Liberating Education

The Great Connections Seminar

Tuesday, January 6, 2009

How a Creative Artist Coped with Bad Schooling

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