'i Won't Learn From You': And Other Thoughts On Creative Maladjustment

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.

• ContentsForeword to the 1995 edition by Jonathan Kozol IXForeword by Colin Greer XPreface XIIIAcknowledgements XVIII Won't Learn From You IThe Tattoed Man: Confessions of a Hopemonger 33Excellence, Equality, and Equity 89Uncommon Differences: On Political Correctness,Core Curriculum, and Democracy in Education 103Creative Maladjustment and The Struggle for Public Education 127

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