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Zen and the Art of Public School Teaching
By John Perricone. PublishAmerica, 87 pages, $14.95 (paper).
San Francisco Bay Guardian
On the first day of class, high school teacher John Perricone, author of Zen and the Art of Public School Teaching, undermines student apathy and "attitude" with a Socratic exchange that always proceeds more or less as follows:
"Why are you getting an education?"
"So I can get a good job someday."
The full text of this article may be found at The San Francisco Bay Guardian.
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