235 Wendy Zeigler/Amy Halpern: The Underground History of Amercian
Education by John Taylor Gatto from archive.org
Wendy
Zeigler/Amy Halpern
How would pedagogical theory explain
Wendy Zeigler — my prize student out of Roland's class at thirteen but fairly anonymous (as most of us are)
ever after — springing into action
in her fifth decade, converting her flat in the funky Bernal Heights section of
San Francisco to the day school
code through her own labor, and suddenly opening a magnificently creative place for kids,
two an one-half to six, called "Wendy Z's Room to Grow, " which did land-office
business from the first. How would it explain Amy Halpern devoting a substantial chunk of her
life to fine-tuning a personal film, "Falling Lessons, " which she knew in advance would never
earn a penny and might not even be shown?
What drives an artist like Amy to strive for an noncommercial
masterpiece? We have no business
imposing a simplistic template on the human spirit. That makes a mockery of Smith 's brilliant free market. 
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