A writer-editor-teacher’s quote of the week 208

Without schools that take responsibility for what goes on beyond as well as in the classroom and [that] work to remove the walls that separate the two worlds, students will continue to bracket off all that they learn from life and keep their lives at arm’s length from what they learn. Without teachers who are left alone to teach, students will fall prey to the suasion of an illiterate society all too willing to make its dollars their tutors.

– from the essay “Education-Based Community Service at Rutgers University” by Benjamin Barber, published in Writing for Change: A Community Reader, edited by Ann Watters and Marjorie Ford

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