Voices of Children: The Story of the Fifteenth Street School - Paperback

by Wilbur Rippy (Author), Rachel Rippy (Author)

In these pages you will meet the children and teachers of the Fifteenth Street School, who collaborated during the 1960's to create an environment for self-directed learning. The voices of these children attest today, as they did five decades ago, to the resources and capacities of young people everywhere, and inspire hope for the future.I am excited about this book. Without a doubt, it reflects the interesting and beautiful way that Wilbur and Rachel worked with all the children at the Fifteenth Street School. --Paul Fusco, photographer, Magnum Photos, school parentAt one level, this is an interesting story about an innovative school, located at a particular time and place. Even more than that, it is about taking children seriously-really seeing them, hearing them, giving them the respect most of us regularly give to adults. The lessons from that story are timeless and universal. We are so lucky that Wilbur wrote down what he saw and heard and that Rachel has narrated the story so clearly. Not by preaching, but by example, this book can help us all become better parents, teachers, and friends to children.--Peter GrayResearch Professor at Boston College, author of Free to Learn: Why Unleashing the Instinct to Play Will Make Our Children Happier, More Self-Reliant, and Better Students for Life.Profits from the sale of this book will be donated to the Alliance for Self-Directed Education (ASDE). Please visit www.self-directed.org.