Education Revolution

I Won't Learn From You

And Other Thoughts on Creative Maladjustment

With a new foreword by Jonathan Kozol

Herbert Kohl

One of the most important books on teaching published in many years . . . . Wise and tender, written with the deepest love for children. I will go back to it again and again for strength in future years.
-Jonathan Kozol

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“I Won’t Learn from You,” Herb Kohl’s now-classic essay on “not learning,” or refusing to learn, is available for the first time in an affordable paperback edition along with four other landmark essays. Drawing on a concept set forth by Martin Luther King Jr., Kohl argues for “creative maladjustment” in the classroom and anywhere else that students’ intelligence, dignity, or integrity are compromised by a teacher, an institution, or a larger social mind-set. This volume also includes “The Tattooed Man,” Kohl’s autobiographical essay about “hope-mongering,” which Kohl finds essential for all effective teaching in these difficult times.

Must reading . . . for anyone looking for the humanity buried in the long debate about why Johnny can’t read.
-Kirkus Reviews

An important new book on teaching . . . Thoughtful and readable.”
-Education Today

A brilliant guide to what Kohl calls ‘creative maladjustment.’”
-San Francisco Chronicle

If there is hope at all for those who struggle for success in school environments characterized increasingly by cultural, racial, economic, and linguistic diversity, then messages such as this one must be heeded.
-Asa Hilliard

Herb Kohl at his provocative best, pushing us to think in fresh, unsettling ways about teaching and learning.
-Mike Rose, author of Lives on the Boundary

An intensely personal book that challenges conventional wisdom and inspires all of us who care fiercely about children and education.
-Senator Paul D. Wellstone

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Herb Kohl is one of the country’s leading educators and the author of many books, including 36 Children, Reading: How To, The Open Classroom, and Growing Minds. He is currently director of the Coastal Ridge Research and Education Center in Point Arena, California.

Herbert Kohl is keynoting this summer’s AERO Conference and is a contributor to our book, Turning Points.