Summary Of Stupidity And Tears By Kohl

Will Carnes Into to Education

My thesis statement was developed after reading Herbert Kohl’s book, Stupidity and Tears. Mr. Kohl wrote this book after years in the education field. He reflects on his experience as a young teacher in the inner city systems of New York, his sabbatical year in Italy stretching himself to write about his experiences, many of them about students that he had taught. He then describes his current efforts to create a new kind of teaching program associated with the University of San Francisco which is unique in its philosophy and its style of grooming teachers to push beyond the expected in education. As a result of reading this book, I would question if in inner city schools, teachers were permitted
The end result in some of these cases is discouraging a gifted teacher from flourishing and questioning his/her ability to be an effective teacher and an inspired teacher. It is also failing the students further by not providing an environment where they were succeeding. In some examples, teachers are actually moved to different schools for being successful because they were being a rebel by challenging the
There must be a progressive approach to change our educational system to critique and address current shortcomings, failings, and discriminatory practices. The approach must be grounded in ideals of social justice, equality in education, and a dedication to facilitating educational experiences where all students reach their full potential as learners and as socially aware and active people. Teacher-education programs must adopt new ways to approach education and help either new teachers or experienced teachers redefine the environment in which students learn and students succeed. You must start with teachers who believe in this type of social change so they can support each others ideas, collaborate on change and make adjustments when approaches are not working. Creating bonds infuses energy into this type of effort so that teachers are equipped to take on established, failing programs and believe that they can learn from set backs. They should feel energized to forge on to reach their goals of developing learning programs for students that reflect their everyday challenges and find the seed of a learner in them and make them feel OK that they can be a student and not feel the pressure of their peers that it isn’t acceptable to succeed in school. The new design of a student program has to be creative, but still adhere to the mandates that oversee education systems. Kohl believes that his program at the University of San Francisco is succeeding in developing a new