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• Education in America – Part Seven

  

  The Making of the Modern Teacher If one wishes to understand what happens in the classroom, one must look first at what happens before the classroom. Teachers do not arrive fully formed. They are trained, credentialed, mentored, assessed, and licensed through institutions that hold definite ideas about what a teacher is for. That is why…

  Jonathan Hillmer

  May 25, 2026

  Education, History, On Family, politics

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• Education in America – Part Three

  

  Part 3: From Reading and Arithmetic to Therapy and Activism  There was a time when the purpose of a school could be stated without embarrassment. Children were sent there to learn to read, to write, to count, to know something of the world that existed before they arrived, and to acquire habits of mind that would serve them when novelty had…

  Jonathan Hillmer

  March 12, 2026

  Education, History, On Family, politics

  children, Common Sense, diverse, Education, emotional, Intelligence, kids, Learning, literacy, obvious, politics, smart, students, teaching