Lynn Stoddard
Lynn Stoddard, my friend and fellow participant in the
Alternative Education Resource Organization (AERO), shared with me the text of a guest commentary,
“Educating Everybody”, he wrote for the Ogden, Utah
Standard-Examiner. Lynn is a now retired long-time teacher and founder of the Educating for Human Greatness Alliance. His commentary lays out clearly the vision of holistic education that has its roots in
John Dewey,
Maria Montessori,
Rudolph Steiner and others. He is a great champion for a vision embraced by many alternative educators, and an approach to teaching that I acknowledge and respect. But with my emerging left-libertarian orientation to education, it is a vision that I have developed some issues with.
He sets the context in his opening paragraph…
The time has come to change the way we educate children in our public schools. There are signs
