#herbert kohl

[wordsoftheheartandsoul]

One of the beauties of teaching is that there is no limit to one's growth as a teacher, just as there is no knowing beforehand how much your students can learn.

Herbert Kohl

[thingsthatmadeanimpression]

Excerpt from “36 Children” by Herbert Kohl ~~Park Avenue~~

Excerpt from “36 Children” by Herbert Kohl ~~Park Avenue~~

In 1962, Herbert Kohl became a teacher at a public school in Harlem where he taught a class of thirty-six sixth grade students. The children were familiar with their own neighbourhood, but not further down the road…

  A week after we had gone to the museum I made a general invitation to the class to take a drive with me down Park Avenue. Seven children took me up and at 3.15 on Friday we set out…

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[quickquotesbyfalkner]

Working-class pride is the opposite of wanting to be rich or to be boss. It is the pride in the power of working people to make a decent world without the help of experts, professionals, or the beneficient rich.

Herbert Kohl, from 'A Plea for Radical Children's Literature' (New York: The New Press, 1995), p.68-69

[quickquotesbyfalkner]

Though most books for young children don't portray a world of the rich and their servants, and are much more middle class in character, they still well-being to money and portray lives full of comfort and joy. By implication they provide an ideal type of life, one worth aspiring to. However, it is possible to live a full and decent life without great wealth, and it may be that the acquisition of great wealth always comes at the cost of other peoples' impoverishment. These possibilities are rarely if ever raised in children's literature.

Herbert Kohl, from Should We Burn Babar? (New York: The New Press, 1995), p.29

[theangryminority]

To agree to learn from a stranger who does not respect your integrity causes a major loss of self. The only alternative is to not-learn and reject their world.

Herbert Kohl, I Won't Learn From You

[pileofdenial-blog]

It is hard for many people to realize that what is ordinary for them, a matter of common experience, can be a revelation to other people.

Herbert Kohl, I Won't Learn From You

[jarodrosello]

To agree to learn from a stranger who does not respect your integrity causes a major loss of self. The only alternative is to not-learn and reject the stranger's world.

Herbert Kohl, "I Won't Learn From You"

[noface-nameless-blog-blog]

To agree to learn from a stranger who does not respect your integrity causes a major loss of self. The only alternative is to not-learn and reject their world

Herbert Kohl Explaining one form of resistance oppressed students demonstrate when their dominant (white heterosexual able-bodied man) teacher sees them as "other".