Unlike after reading Freire or Illich, I only wanted more when I got to the end of Dumbing Us Down. Paulo Freire should have had to take one of your English classes.
You are an amazing writer, somehow able to be concise, sweeping and passionate all at the same time. Betsy Koenig, Executive Director, The Renaissance Educator, Loveland CO We have had many comments from our readers about the quality and truth of your words. Thank goodness! - Debbie Caldwell, Boston, MA We found your views so resonant with the work we are doing that we reprinted excerpts from your speech. Ed Lyell, Colorado State Board of Education, Denver CO Everyone is listening to you. I so fully agreed with everything you said that you have re-excited me about the similar mission I am on.
Boulding saw your writing and got it to me. Bonni McKeown, Capon Springs VA Professor Kenneth E. Our schools leave no time for kids to be with parents and the community. Jones, Editor, A Voice for Children, Santa Fe NM Your words hit the nail on the head. Graham Betts, Madison WI I read what you had to say with the greatest of delight and shared it with friends, one of whom said it brought tears to her eyes. Mark and Helen Hegener, Home Education Magazine, Tonasket WA Easily the most brilliant and arresting salvo on education that I’ve seen. Thanks for your common sense approach to it all. …everywhere we look these days your words are printed and reprinted and analyzed and criticized and applauded. D’Arcy Rickard, British Columbia School Trustees Association, Canada Bruce Bebb, The Hollywood Reporter, Hollywood CA You’ve got guts. The Western Australian …inspirational and chillingly on the money. Burkart, Attorney at Law, Waltham MA One of the world’s most controversial education reformists. Jeanne Allen, Editor, Education Update, Washington DC … a masterful presentation of the “hidden curriculum.” I can’t think of anyone presently taking the public discussion of education so skillfully beyond where it usually gets stuck. Cynthia Brown, Editor, The International Educator, West Bridgwater MA I’m still baffled by how someone so forthright would have been named Teacher of the Year. My own 18-year-old commented that you clearly know what’s going on. Praise for Dumbing Us Down You’ve articulated in a most profound way the problems we are all observing in our students and children.
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