Teaching Human Beings: The Role of Language in Education

This 322 page hardback book may be used in a variety of ways. For libraries it is a useful resource and reference book. For teachers, it contains scores of ideas, tips, methods, and materials. It can be used as a resource in schools of education for seminars and graduate classes for dialogue concerning the major problems confronting educators and the obligations of the classroom teacher.

There are 26 comprehensive chapters on the art and practice of teaching: How and why organisms learn, why teaching is a spritually fulfilling endeavor, and why education remains fundamental in a society that values independent, self-fulfillilng, and self-starting human beings. There are chapters on every aspect of the language arts as well as chapters on the art of teaching in general and the role of language in all disciplines: poetry in physics, sentence structure in computer science, reading in oil painting.

This is a lively, humorous, and readable book for anyone interested in education and its future form. A comprehensive view of how human beings learn, it explains why each individual must be recognized as the center of any learning environment, and shows how such an environment can be arranged.