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This
treasure collection of essays on education emphasizes
the " continuing " process of learning that
goes along with being an educator. The emphasis on
" Personal learning " in these essays
constitutes an enduring legacy.
THE CONTINUING EDUCATION OF A TEACHER is a treasure for
several reasons...... the depth, clarity, and
imagination with which the book demonstrates, in a
variety of contexts, what it takes to make a good
teacher... it is the respectful and loving, though never
sentimental, accounts of these students that Howard Wolf
consistently gives. The Value of this account is further
enhanced by the fact that the book consists of writings
at various times from 1968 to the present.
The Unique book examines
the inherently volatile issue of the responsibilities of
a teacher in higher education. The author's ultimate
question is " What can I, a teacher, do to make my
past relevant to my future; " similarly, to make
each student experience the amplitude of his life ? The
Book virtually breaks down all obstacles to authentic
exchange between the passive, " unknowing "
Student on the one hand and the authoritarian, "
knowing " professor on the other. This is a
teacher's odyssey of his thirty-year teaching career,
dramatizing the classroom dynamic that turns teacher
into student and student into teacher, it documents the
shaping of a man's commitment, and his humanity, against
the back-drop of the trouble times and the changing
attitudes of the present-day generation.
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"WHAT the author has to say about education in general is
illuminated by his personal life." |
— Bruce Mazlish
(Senior Professor of Humanities and SocialSciences
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.), U.S.A.)
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"The book is starling mirror of what we are and a wistful
portrait of what we want to be. " |
— M. CARLOTA BACA,
(Director of Academic Liaison,
fulbright Scholar Program
, U.S.A.) |
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Power of Howard Wolf's insights derives from a
passionate participation in the political,
literary, and social events that have constituted
our recent culture. The center of this
genarational biography is a meditation on personal
education... |
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Roger
Porter
(Professor of Literature & Humanities
Red College(U.S.A.)) |
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"The Continuing Education
of a Teacher, action packed, in a style swift, fluent,
and literary.... writing that makes intense use of
individual experience and knowledge.... In these essays
Howard Wolf introduces us to a less known side of the
university culture.... He shows us how alive the
University ethos is to the issues of power , politics,
money, abuse, and corruption. We see how students are
yet sensitive to those values that keep Democracy alive,
when consumerism technology, and an almost hypochondriac
fear have induced a coma-like conformity on the
majority. The greater sense of urgency, of time sense,
of this student generation is made vocal in their demand
for a more relevant and participative education" |
— SHASHI PRABHA KAMRA
(Indira Gandhi National Open
University " IGNOU",
New Delhi, India) |
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"...Young men and women in the nineties will be
predominantly morally obtuse and insensitive to the
needs of other people; preoccupied with technology at
the expense of their humanity... There may not be much a
teacher can do about that, but I wish more of us would
try. Howard wolf does, quit often... I share completely
Wolf's conviction that history and the liberal arts are
indispensable resources in any important struggle, inner
or outer, that may engage us." |
— EDGAR Z. FRIDENBERG
(Professor emeritus, Dalhousie University, U.S.A.) |
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