Sunday, October 3, 2010

t r u t h o u t | Back to School: An Interview With Bill Ayers

t r u t h o u t | Back to School: An Interview With Bill Ayers

Back to School: An Interview With Bill Ayers

by: Maya Schenwar, Executive Director, t r u t h o u t | Interview

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Bill Ayers. (Photo: lloyd89)

As the 2010-2011 school year grumbled to a start - and millions of public school students settled into overcrowded, underfunded, under-resourced classrooms - I sat down in Chicago with education theorist and activist Bill Ayers to discuss true democracy, false reform and his latest book (co-authored with cartoonist Ryan Alexander-Tanner), "To Teach: The Journey in Comics." In an educational culture increasingly permeated by top-down marketplace values, Ayers, who taught primary school for years, still believes in the possibility of a schooliverse where every teacher is respected and every student is valued as a full human being, where collaborative learning and growth trump