Some choice observations on schools

Too many experts and officials, armed with their arrogance and undaunted by their ignorance of life in actual classrooms, have for 40 years peddled failed “reforms” that have only made things worse.

Peter Berger Poor Elijah Peter Berger teaches English in Weathersfield, Vermont. Poor Elijah would be pleased to answer letters addressed to him in care of the editor.
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Henry Thoreau was my schoolboy idol. I admired the way he lived and the way he put words together. He didn’t have access to Twitter in the 19th century, but he could do more with 140 characters than anybody tweeting today. Of course, some people don’t...

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