⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Verified Purchase – Herbert Kohl‘s “I Won’t Learn from You: And Other Thoughts on Creative Maladjustment” is the single most important book I read in graduate school for education and is a parent / teacher must have. You’ll comprehend how societal risk factors operate in the student’s mind from the student’s POV at their developmental level.
Teachers and parents of struggling students of any age will gain mountains of insights to help children over the hurdles they, we, and society place on them. You’ll learn the role of assent in education and how when you don’t have it, a student refuses to learn or actively engaging in “not learning” and unlearning techniques.
Read this book at least 3 times. Let it soak in, feel it, and let it ground you when your classroom or dinner table is consumed with academic crisis. Genius work, ripe for discussion in teacher and parent groups.
Herbert Kohl is an innovative educator, has authored more than thirty books on education, founded the 1960s Open School movement and is credited with coining the term “open classroom.” #goodreads #musthave