{"product_id":"i-learn-from-children-an-adventure-in-progressive-education-paperback","title":"I Learn from Children: An Adventure in Progressive Education - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCaroline Pratt\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eIan Frazier\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A lucid presentation of what progressive education can accomplish.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHow should schools prepare students for the Information Age? The successful worker of the future - a creative, independent thinker who works well in teams--would seem to be too self-contradictory to be the deliberate product of a school. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA century ago, the American educator Caroline Pratt created an innovative school that she hoped would produce such independent thinkers, but she asked herself a different question: \"Was it unreasonable to try to fit the school to the child, rather than . . . the child to the school?\" A strong-willed, small-town schoolteacher who ran a one-room schoolhouse by the time she was seventeen, Pratt came to viscerally reject the teaching methods of her day, which often featured a long-winded teacher at the front of the room and rows of miserable children, on benches nailed to the floor, stretching to the back. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this classic 1948 memoir, now in its fourth edition, Pratt recounts, in a wry authorial voice much closer to Will Rogers than John Dewey, how she founded what is now the dynamic City and Country School in New York City; invented the maple \"unit blocks\" that have become a staple in classrooms and children's homes around the globe; and came to play an important role in reimagining preschool and primary-school education in ways that resound in the tumultuously creative age before us. This edition features a new introduction by Ian Frazier, as well as additional commentary, and an afterword.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCaroline Pratt\u003c\/b\u003e (1867-1954) was the founder of City and Country School, a path-breaking progressive school for children to the age of thirteen. She poured a lifetime of experience into \u003ci\u003eI Learn from Children\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 320\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 8.2 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 24, 2014\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51757510230304,"sku":"9780802122704","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/b6df16f3ebeedb7d367116e7b48143f4.webp?v=1780104656","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/i-learn-from-children-an-adventure-in-progressive-education-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}