Supporting Material
Didactic Education: The Modern Past
Following are a number of famous people and writers reflecting on what they hated most about their school days. Their stories are telling of some of the more painfully experienced aspects of didactic education
Winston Churchill’s School Days
Maintaining Classroom Discipline
Authentic Education: More Recent Times
Jean-Jacques Rousseau on Emile’s Education
Maria Montessori on ‘Free, Natural’ Education
John Dewey on Progressive Education
Early Progressive Education
Rabindranath Tagore’s School at Shantiniketan
A Critique of Progressive Education
Transformative Education: New Learning
Bill Gates on American Schools
Kalantzis and Cope, A Learning Journey
Transformative Education Case Studies
The MET: No Classes, No Grades and 94% Graduation Rate
Children Learning on their Own
Ken Robinson on How Schools Kill Creativity
Paulo Freire on Education that Liberates