Reading this book was such a joy. It seems to address and solve so many of the issues my current school is facing now. I work primarily with students whose families have recently immigrated to the United States. This school I work for is inner-city and very poor (90% free and reduced lunch). Many of the issues facing Patri in 1917 in New York are issues I am confronted every day with a similar population distanced only by time. Patri's 1917 school is my 2011 school with a few notable exceptions. Primarily, the introduction of new technologies and the fact that in Patri's time scientific management was a new idea and today it has acquired a multi-generational foothold (or stranglehold) on our school system. Either way, so much of what Patri writes about in this book can apply to my current situation.
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anderscj"A boy, especially a boy who has been master in the street and in the home and would be master in the school, will ... http://t.co/fjS9np5
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"A boy, especially a boy who has been master in the street and in the home and would be master in the school, will not risk being humiliated before his classmates. Just as long as his offense is an offense against the teacher it is an heroic offense, but when it is an offense against the group, the heroism disappears." Patri
Sound classroom management advice.
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anderscj"I tried to improve the teaching by getting away from the accepted treatment of the three R's. These subjects were ... http://t.co/diL5zjm 42 days ago via Twittelator · powered by @socialditto
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anderscj"The average parent thinks of education largely in terms of books. The poorer the people are the more apt they are ... http://t.co/XInLWNw 42 days ago via Twittelator · powered by @socialditto
"The average parent thinks of education largely in terms of books. The poorer the people are the more apt they are to overvalue the traditional work of the school. The school is the place to learn from books and the children must not waste time doing anything else." Patri
I find this insight both fascinating and dreadfully accurate in diagnosing why the further down in the socioeconomic trenches one goes the more traditional school looks. When we started our school year our school director told us that, "If you don't assign homework everyday our parents will think you are a bad teacher." To me this echoes Patri's observation. This also helps explain the enthusiasm inner-city poor and working class families have for schools like KIPP and Mastery.
Consider the difference between these two approaches:
vs.
In which classroom environment do students learn more deeply? In which one do the students find what they learn more relevant? Which one is more likely to be seen in a school serving poor children? Which one is more likely to be seen in a school serving privileged children?
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anderscj"Parents have been trained, as have the teachers, to think of school as a place where the children are made to obey... http://t.co/S86CugK 42 days ago via Twittelator · powered by @socialditto
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anderscj"Rich and poor alike want their children done up in little packages, ready to show, ready to boast of. They fear fr... http://t.co/dcL4xCX 42 days ago via Twittelator · powered by @socialditto
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Chris Betcher@anderscj Can you tell me where that quote came from? I can't seem to find it online. 42 days ago via Twitter for Mac · powered by @socialditto
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anderscj@betchaboy Angelo Patri (1917) A Schoolmaster of the Great City 42 days ago via Twitterrific · powered by @socialditto
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anderscj"It was the point of view. They saw a school for administration. I saw a school for the 'all-around' development of... http://t.co/aQWzss4 41 days ago via Twittelator · powered by @socialditto
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anderscj"Home shuts the door and by that simple action closes out the world. School shuts the door and concerns itself no f... http://t.co/2ZvpBPH 41 days ago via Twittelator · powered by @socialditto
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anderscj"Inadequate, isolated homes, forever closing their doors and forever begging us to come in!" Patri 41 days ago via Twittelator · powered by @socialditto
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anderscj"I had learned that education was a matter of cooperation between parents and teachers. Conduct, self-expression, m... http://t.co/j7bv2A6 41 days ago via Twittelator · powered by @socialditto
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anderscj"Unless the people knew about and shared in the education of their children the schools would be inefficient." Patri 41 days ago via Twittelator · powered by @socialditto
This is great! Invite parents to come and take part in the school. This is the key to moving schools into the future, especially those in poor neighborhoods. Having the community involved means they are also receiving an indirect education, one which will make them more likely to want for their children what the children of the wealthy schools have.
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anderscj"These were the old residents. If we could get them interested and active they might not all go away. Some might st... http://t.co/3VhEQ7d 40 days ago via Twittelator · powered by @socialditto
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anderscj"We saw that the way to reach people and to keep their cooperation was to give them work. Having secured individual... http://t.co/WY5KdHd 40 days ago via Twittelator · powered by @socialditto
People want to give. People want to be helpful. We just have to ask.
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anderscj"The teacher had the idea. The parents were interested in their own children first. That was the place to begin." Patri 40 days ago via Twittelator · powered by @socialditto
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anderscj"No member of the local school board had a child attending our school! Small wonder they did not understand the parents' requests." Patri 40 days ago via Twittelator · powered by @socialditto
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anderscj"We are all preachers by nature. We get an idea and at once believe it is the most important idea in the world. The... http://t.co/ez2QZQR 40 days ago via Twittelator · powered by @socialditto
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anderscj"Socializing the school means humanizing the teacher." Patri 40 days ago via Twittelator · powered by @socialditto
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anderscj"the group realized that united strength could achieve results even in the face of powerful opposition." Patri 40 days ago via Twittelator · powered by @socialditto
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Sheila Stewart@anderscj what year is that reading from again? Very interesting! 40 days ago via web · powered by @socialditto
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anderscj@SheilaSpeaking 1917 39 days ago via web · powered by @socialditto
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anderscj"What we needed to satisfy our play instincts was leadership and open spaces." Patri 39 days ago via Twittelator · powered by @socialditto
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anderscj"Someday the school itself will bridge over the gap that exists between English-speaking children and non-English s... http://t.co/CZhWtAh 39 days ago via Twittelator · powered by @socialditto
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anderscj"There is no bondage so deadly as that which prohibits intellectual liberty." Patri 38 days ago via Twittelator · powered by @socialditto
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anderscj"If our children were to grow to love English literature they must come upon it in a more vital way than they could... http://t.co/jfgX2LJ 38 days ago via Twittelator · powered by @socialditto
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anderscj"The problem of making the child behave had become the problem of providing the best conditions of growth for him. ... http://t.co/B63KHDT 38 days ago via Twittelator · powered by @socialditto
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anderscj"Instead of thinking of Jacob merely as an interference, as a challenge to her ability to hold her position, she th... http://t.co/fzJCah7 38 days ago via Twittelator · powered by @socialditto
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anderscj"The teacher has too many children, too little time, and always a fear that she won't finish the term's work; that ... http://t.co/MXJLacN 38 days ago via Twittelator · powered by @socialditto
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anderscj"They forget most of the knowledge given them. What they need is the habit of free thinking and the spirit of work." Patri 38 days ago via Twittelator · powered by @socialditto
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anderscj"The school must be enriched so that the child can experiment with actual things from the very first day he comes t... http://t.co/J8J9pLB 37 days ago via Twittelator · powered by @socialditto
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anderscj"The substitution of direct experiences for indirect ones leads nowhere. Both are needed, work and analysis of work... http://t.co/nyBHPsi 37 days ago via Twittelator · powered by @socialditto
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anderscj"Change the school so that it will permit the children to act for themselves and less by rule, so that it is not th... http://t.co/sWGX0jo 37 days ago via Twittelator · powered by @socialditto
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anderscj"If the school means arrested development for the child it means arrested development for the teacher." Patri 37 days ago via Twittelator · powered by @socialditto
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anderscj"before long the continuous monotony of teaching the same thing in the same way, at the same time, with the same re... http://t.co/3FAKmzF 37 days ago via Twittelator · powered by @socialditto
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anderscj"First we must change the life of the school, making school experience life experiences; second, we must change the... http://t.co/p1Bvj4w 37 days ago via Twittelator · powered by @socialditto
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