Geranium on the Windowsill Died

by Albert Cullum

Book Overview

Brief poems describing children's experiences in and feelings about school. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0825231051
• ISBN13: 9780825231056
• Release Date: May 1978
• Publisher: Harlin Quist Books
• Length: 62 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Deserve to be kept in print, NEEDS to be required reading for teachers!

This is the best book ever written about the ART of teaching. It can be seen as a parable, a mantra, or even a tao -- but it's all there -- everything you need to know about being a meaningful presence in the lives of learners. If you ARE a teacher, read it. If you KNOW a teacher, buy him or her a copy -- but read it first. If you're a legislator, have someone on your staff read it to you. If you're thinking about becoming a teacher, memorize it.

Geranium

This book arrived in excellent condition, exactly as represented. I would not hesitate to do business with this vendor again!

anuther brilyunt mind distroyde by publik skooling

I just read this book today, for the first time. As a person who was in grade school during the early 70's, in northern Indiana where I attended school, the newer philosophies of "free to be, you and me" and Sesame Street, The Electric Company, and Really Rosie, were seen as dangerously subversive, and too liberating for young minds. The teachers in my grade school were all about holding us down, shutting us up, and breaking any kid who had a spirited nature....like me. My school experience was hellish and emotionally damaging, and this little book about the death of the geranium on the windowsill expresses just about every feeling I have about my educational experience. At age 37, it still hits hard and it hurts. BUY THIS BOOK if you went to school and hated it, because it will show you that there are other people who felt the same way, and maybe the poem and the illustrations will provide some kind of a catharsis for your inner child like it did for me. Direct all comments to brideofcyrano@aol.com

A favorite of mine for many, many years

I bought this book when I was a teacher many years ago, and it has remained one of my favorite books about education, ever. I loved it then. I love it now.

Cullum captures a comic commentary of teachers and education

"The Geranium on the Window Sill Just Died, but Teacher You Went Right On" is a commentary on teachers and education. The subject matter is current and applicable. Colorful, comic, and controversial would describe the contemporary treatment of education. This book is a collector find. I have, in over twenty-five years of teaching, had two personal copies. Both have "disappeared" while being shared in the teachers'lounge. My favorite parts were the direct and satirical "hits" on an insensitive strain of educators who still exist in any school system. The pictures tell educational truths in ways that words cannot express. I found it hilarious!