Schooling’s Deadening Routine

“Much that passes for education…is not education at all, but ritual. The fact is that we are being educated when we know it least.”

David P. Gardner Vital Speeches (1975)

Excerpted from: Howe, Randy, ed. The Quotable Teacher. Guilford, CT: The Lyons Press, 2003.

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