Sunday, September 16, 2007

These Are a Few Things a Teacher Should Read

by Forrest Stone
(to the tune of "These are a Few of My Favourite Things")

Rousseau and Skinner and old Montessori
Jonathan Kozol sure writes a sad story
Steiner and Adler might make your eyes bleed
But these are a few things a teacher should read
Erickson, Froebel, and Constructivism
Hirsch versus Bloom was a really good schism
John Dewey’s classic, “My Ped’gogic Creed”
These are a few things a teacher should read

When the peace breaks, when the kid screams
When you’re turning puce
You look back at these theoretical tracts
And suddenly they’re … no use!

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