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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