{"product_id":"i-learn-from-children-an-adventure-in-progressive-education-9780802122704","title":"I Learn from Children: An Adventure in Progressive Education","description":"\"A lucid presentation of what progressive education can accomplish.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\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\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Grove Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50413058949394,"sku":"9780802122704","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_aead53cb-5fc8-46a6-8419-86ddecf5b76d.jpg?v=1729343339","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/i-learn-from-children-an-adventure-in-progressive-education-9780802122704","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}