Teach Me!: Kids Will Learn When Oppression is the Lesson - Hardcover

Levin, Murray

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0853459320 ISBN 13: 9780853459323

Publisher: Monthly Review Press, 1998

Synopsis

"Written with warmth, humor, and extraordinary insight, Teach Me! is a book that will change the way teachers think."
--Doris Kearns Goodwin, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of No Ordinary Time and Wait Till Next Year

"Murray Levin starts with a brilliant idea-to probe the political and social thought of African-American and Latino teenagers who are not supposed to have such thoughts-and fulfills it. The result is totally compelling, an education for the reader. Teach Me! is an original."
--Howard Zinn, Author of A People's History of the United States

Teach Me! is an account of a seasoned educator's experience in an urban high school. A book that confronts "social decay, . . . the malignancy of our time," Teach Me! also describes a remarkable collaboration between a teacher and his students, who came to recognize together that the world needs to change.

About this title

About the Author:

Murray Levin is currently a lecturer in politics at the Harvard University Extension School.

Review:

Murray Levin starts with a brilliant idea--to probe the political and social thought of African-American and Latino teenagers who are not supposed to have such thoughts--and fulfills it. The result is totally compelling, an education for the reader. (Zinn, Howard)

With disarming honesty, Murray Levin shares what he learned about his students, as well as what they managed to teach him. These young people are a wonder, sometimes inchoate, often sharply insightful and gloriously poetic. Levin is a wonder, too, because he found within himself the warmth, imagination, and intelligence to figure out how to speak to them. (Piven, Frances Fox)

In this passionate, provocative, and important book, Murray Levin provides an imaginative and workable way of reaching the students that our educational system is failing. Written with warmth, humor, and extraordinary insight, Teach Me! is a book that will change the way teachers think. (Doris Kearns Goodwin)

About this edition

• Publisher: Monthly Review Press
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0853459320
• ISBN 13: 9780853459323
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 174