"We are at times too ready to believe that the present is the only possible state of things.’"
~ Marcel Proust
Books For Your Library...so far
Here are a series of books you can read and reread for your pleasure and self-edification. I've compiled this from my experience with educators, in classes at Grinnell and TC, and from my own perusal of books at the library.
Plato's Dialogues
Plato : Phaedo, Crito, Meno, Symposium, Apoogy, Phaedrus, Gorgias, Euthyphro, Parmenides
Nicomachean Ethics
by Aristotle
The Human Condition
by Hannah Arendt
The Psychic Life of Power: Theories in Subjection
by Judith Butler
The Art of Teaching
by Gilbert Highet
The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice are Undermining Education
by Diane Ravitch
A People's History of the United States (1492 - present)
by Howard Zinn
Lies my Teacher Told Me
by James W. Loewen
Taking Cues from Kids
by Dottie Peters
The House of Earth Series: The Good Earth, Sons, A House Divided
by Pearl S. Buck
The Chosen
by Chaim Potok
Black Ants and Buddhists
by Mary Cowhey
The Golden Ratio: The Story of PHI, the World's Most Astonishing Number
by Mario Livio
Blink / Outliers / Tipping Point
by Malcolm Gladwell
The Giver Trilogy (The Giver, Gathering Blue, and the Messenger)
by Lois Lowry
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