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Beyond The Schoolhouse

These posts address BANR founder Ted Wachtel’s attitudes toward education, developed through his experiences in a career as a traditional classroom history teacher. Excerpted from his 2020 book, “Beyond the Schoolhouse,” now available in paperback and e-book formats.

Skating Away

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The problem, as I see it, is that we have come to confuse learning with schooling. We think that the only way people can be educated is by attending school.

Compulsory Education

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Whichever subject content or teaching method or evaluation tool I chose, I still faced the same dilemma: I could not get kids who didn’t want to learn something to learn it.