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Title: To Teach: The Journey of a Teacher by William Ayers, Gloria Ladson-Billings ISBN: 0-8077-3985-5 Publisher: Teachers College Pr Pub. Date: March, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $18.95

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Average Customer Rating: 3.6 (5 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: Insightful Reading for All Educators
Comment: Ayers takes us on a journey unlike any other yet, with glimpses of ourselves as students and as teachers. Concepts, ideas and rememberances encapsulated in this book reveal the heart of a teacher who recognizes his own imperfections and shares his lessons learned. This book is insightful, intellectual reading that I would recommend to parents of school-aged children, prospective teachers, new teachers, veteran teachers and teacher-educators. This is a book I believe will become a teaching classic. Reading this book and Crossing Over Canaan will give readers some real-life insights of what it means to be a teachers in public schools. This is an excellent book!

Rating: 2
Summary: Teaching Tips from a Terrorist
Comment: I am taking teacher certification classes and this book was assigned reading in a class which discussed what it means to be a teacher. On the positive side, there are a few helpful, practical ideas for the classroom teacher, and a few insights that any teacher should ponder (i.e. how should we as teachers view our students). That being said, however, it really galls me that I had to buy this book and contribute to the wealth of a cynical, unrepentant terrorist and then read page after page on how caring he is, how insightful, how gentle. It makes me tired and irritated. Surely there must be better books out there on teaching.

Rating: 1
Summary: Some hero!
Comment: It beggars belief that an unrepentant home-grown terrorist--a man who dedicated himself to the violent overthrow of a free society (imperfect, yes, but far preferable to anything else in the real world)should be presented as some kind of model for the young. Ayers has never apologized for the ugly murderous counsel he offered the young in his previous incarnation--and now he presumes to tell us something about teaching? What kind of idiocy is it that leads anyone to take him seriously? His book, like his life, is an embarrassment and, after the horrors of September 11, a disgrace. Reason and decency should prevail over the kind of Utopian ideology that leads terrorists to believe their vision should be enforced by violence.

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