Monday, November 27, 2023

235 Wendy Zeigler/Amy Halpern: The Underground History of Amercian Education by John Taylor Gatto from archive.org

 

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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