User:Larrysherk

I am apparently retired, as a teacher of miscellaneous things. My youthful education was in physical science and math. Interests have broadened to all the arts, social sciences, philosophy, and history. Especially interested in history of Eastern Europe, Russia, Northern Asia.

But my overriding love is that people learn to love learning. Thus I have become staunchly anti-schooling. If we cannot help our children and young adults recognize their connections to society -- past, present, and future --, their needs for community and community's need for them, their sacred uniqueness, with some details about what makes them special and what they love to think about, then our efforts are simply a violation of children's civil rights with concommitant destruction of our community's future. Life is simply an intense spiritual adventure and is wasted to the degree it is seen as less.

As a teacher, my students must always be shown I am learning from them just as much as we hope they are learning from me. Learning should be an enterprise among peers.

To me, the most seminal of educators are Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy and Paulo Freire.Larrysherk 00:44, 17 December 2010 (UTC)