Pedagogy Pioneer Gifts

Maria Montessori

A Puppet Named Juan

'Why don't they make thumb-flavored baby food?'

L'il Buckaroo on Board.

"How is it gendered?"

"We sing her to sleep with songs about recycling."

Why all mothers deserve a special day.

Start of school year in Cuba 1

'You can go home today, but we'd like to run a few more tests on your husband.'

"I'm doing all I can to make the little things count."

New Curriculum Timetable - All in Cantonese.

I channeled John Dewey. He says if you want to be a good teacher, don't teach reading and writing. Teach students.

"Skip to the part where the princess climbs to the top of the corporate ladder."

To prevent Christmas git opening from being over in a flash, the Wagner kids were required to use only their feet.

Admirable People - No.7. The man who invented writing before anyone could read.

Horace Mann

The conversion.

I'm home-schooling him.

"Does it come with instructions?"

'If you don't like fathers in the delivery room, where will you be?'

'I don't get it! Not one of these books gives the same advice TWICE!

'You must be the new hire. Welcome aboard. Here's our prepackaged curriculum. If time permits, encourage critical thinking.'

Are you printing your own book? No, it's my mailing to agents!

"I couldn't find the off switch."

'I took her to register in kindergarten, and they wanted a damage deposit.'

"Which one's mine?!"

'Let's play house. You be the stay-at-home dad, and I'll be the career mom.'

'I was well-informed, well-adjusted, a useful member of society - then I married.'

Police Academy - Remedial Reading of Rights

'I gave them shared parental leave and they left me holding the baby!'

I think she's about to say her first word!

"Compulsory education is a myth. We may be compelled to teach, but very few of them are compelled to learn."

'Actually this is a very experimental college. We have no curriculum and no classes. How it works, essentially, is if you want to learn something, you go someplace and you learn it.'

Canoeing on a Dried River Bed

Homeless man's sign: 'Will sell book & movie rights to the story of my downfall for a cool million.'