About this title: A startling and provocative look at teaching, writing, creativity and life by a writer increasingly recognized for his passionate and articulate critique of modern civilization. This time Derrick Jensen brings us into his classroom - whether college or maximum security prison - where he teaches writing. He reveals how schools perpetuate the great illusion that happiness lies outside of ourselves and that learning to please and submit to those in power makes us into lifelong clockwatchers. As a writing teacher, Jensen guides his students out of the confines of traditional education to find ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing Company
ISBN-13:9781931498487ISBN:1931498482
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Chelsea Green Pub Co
Date Published: 2005-04-30
ISBN-13:9781931498784ISBN:1931498784
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing Company
Date Published: 2004
ISBN-13:9781931498487ISBN:1931498482
Description: New in new dust jacket. Signed by author. Signed by Jensen on Title Page, Brand New! Support Radical Independent Pacific Northwest Booksellers! Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 226 p. Audience: General/trade. From Publishers Weekly Writing teacher Jensen doesn't believe in the traditional grading system, which he calls "a cudgel to bludgeon the unwilling into doing what they don't want to do, " so he opts instead to give his students at Eastern Washington University check ... read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Chelsea Green Pub Co, White River Jct, Vermont, U.S.A.
Date Published: 2004
ISBN-13:9781931498487ISBN:1931498482
Description: Fine/Fine. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall 1931498482 Remember the days of longing for the hands on the classroom clock to move faster? Most of us would say we love to learn, but we hated school. Why is that? What happens to the creativity and uniqueness of each child as they pass through our schools? Derrick Jensen contends that the culture we live in is based on one great illusion in which schools are central to the creation and perpetuation: happiness lies outside of ourselves. By learning to submit ... read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Chelsea Green Pub Co, White River Jct, Vermont, U.S.A.
Date Published: 2004
ISBN-13:9781931498487ISBN:1931498482
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"I found it to be a really quick read, i read it in a day, as well as an amazing book. it made me laugh and think about different things that Derrick Jensen brought up in his book."
"I was given the book saying it would challenge my thoughts and/or my approach toward teaching. It didn't. I agreed with Jensen's view of standard compulsory education. He did a great job of highlighting some of the key problems in the system of education as we know it today. The only value of Jensen's that I disagreed with involved his view of capitalism within what he deemed "industrial civilization.""
"Jensen's advice on writing is top-quality. First, his perspective makes sense: since most people know how to tell a story - that is, to share what they love, therefore most people know how to write. The main trick is maintaining that liveliness on paper, which brings us to Jensen's first rule of writing: don't bore the reader.
His illustration of what it means to show, not tell is also superior. I feel pleased, by which I mean to say I feel as though my head has landed on a soft pillow, a wide smile has streaked across my face, and the tension in my neck is being knotted out like silly putty firmly squished in the hands.
Okay, so I'm not a great writer, but Jensen's not bad. In the midst of illustrating how he teaches writing, he chalks the paragraphs full of his own life philosophies, and in the process, shows the connection between great writing and great living.
Who are you? What do you love? And what do you want? If you can answer these questions, then according to Jensen, you should probably be writing."
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