Praise for "Making It Up as We Go Along"
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"In touchingly plain language, Chris Mercogliano tells about twenty-five years of unfolding trust; how kids learn without anyone making sure; how a free school has become the pretext for community; and how adults who care are able, by shedding their roles, to open unexpected spaces for friendship and new growth. More convincing than any book I have had the privilege to read, this one proves that learning by children ought, once and for all, to be institutionally disembedded." —Ivan Illich, author of Deschooling
Society, and many other books.
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"This is essential reading for anyone who wants to know about the current educational importance of the work that goes on within the free school movement. Making It Up As We Go Along is an exceptional story about an exceptional school." —Herb Kohl, Senior fellow at the Open
Society Institute; author of Thirty-six Children and many other
books.
"This is the most soulful and authentic book about education since the
writings of the radical critics of the 1960s Holt, Kozol, Dennison,
Kohl, and Herndon who have been ignored for
thirty years while our schools becomes steadily more heartless. Mercogliano
reminds us once again that true education is not a management technique but a
human encounter." —Ron Miller, founder of Holistic Education Review and
Paths of Learning magazine; author of What Are Schools For?
"You won't regret taking the time to hear what Chris has to say, because as codirector of one of the nation's longest-running educational experiments, he has certainly earned the right to say it." —John Taylo Gatto, former New York State Teacher of the Year;
author of Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory
Schooling and other books
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