Tag: Wendell Berry
How To Teach For Knowledge Through Humility
How would it change the learning process to start with a tone of humility? To clarify what can be known, and what cannot?
Wendell Berry And Preparing Students For ‘Good Work’
What is the effect of your work? Did you choose your work, or are you doing it under compulsion as the way…
A New Definition For Equity In Education
When discussing equity, there are so many convenient phrases but there may be a larger view that we’re missing.
In Defense Of Absolute Literacy
We must speak, and teach our children to speak, a language precise and articulate and lively enough to tell the truth about…
“Teachers are everywhere. What is wanted is a learner.”
“There is finally the pride of thinking oneself without teachers. The teachers are everywhere. What is wanted is a learner.”
What Is The Purpose Of School?
How much of your intelligence, your affection, your skill, and your pride is employed in your work? What are its ecological and…
Learning Is Different Than Education
Learning is different than education. Learning is driven by curiosity, self-directed & supported; the other is metered, led & caused.
Start Small: A Wendell Berry Commencement Address
“What we need, obviously, is a more intelligent–which is to say, a more accurate–description of the problem.” — Wendell Berry