The Lives of Children

by George Dennison

Book Overview

This text presents George Dennison's story of The First Street School and how he succeeded in helping children no one had been able to help. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0394708636
• ISBN13: 9780394708638
• Release Date: January 1970
• Publisher: Random House Trade
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A masterpiece, challenging and inspiring

This book is a masterpiece, a classic work, beautifully and tenderly written, full of wisdom. The book's chapters alternate between excerpts from the journal Dennison kept during his year as a teacher at the First Street School (a small "free school" that served primarily poor children of color in New York City during the mid-1960's) and essays on education that use Dennison's experiences at First Street as their starting points. This book has been on my bookshelf for twenty-five years and I have gone back to it over and over. As a "touchstone" for the essential truths about education, this book far surpasses any other book on education I've seen.

Lives of Children

As when I first read this book 30 years ago, it is still the best explanation for why education works or doesn't work. And it is very well written -- and very touching! It reaches one's soul.