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..all subjects are forms of discourse and that, therefore, almost all education is a form of language education. Knowledge of a subject mostly means k...more

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Poverty is a great educator. Having no boundaries and refusing to be ignored, it mostly teaches hopelessness. But not always. Politics is also a great...more

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In tracking what people have to say about schooling, I notice that most of the conversation is about means, rarely about ends. . . It is as if we are ...more

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Watch a man--say, a politician--being interviewed on television, an you are observing a demonstration of what both he and his interrogators learned in...more

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If students get a sound education in the history, social effects and psychological biases of technology, they may grow to be adults who use technology...more

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Every television program must be a complete package in itself. No previous knowledge is to be required. There must not be even a hint that learning is...more

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There is no way to help a learner to be disciplined, active, and thoroughly engaged unless he perceives a problem to be a problem or whatever is to-be...more

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Thomas Jefferson. . . knew what schools were for--to ensure that citizens would know when and how to protect their liberty. . . It would not have come...more

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Public education does not serve a public. It creates a public. And in creating the right kind of public, the schools contribute toward strengthening t...more

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Educators may bring upon themselves unnecessary travail by taking a tactless and unjustifiable position about the relation between scientific and reli...more

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The question is not, Does or doesn't public schooling create a public? The question is, What kind of public does it create? A conglomerate of self-ind...more