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The World of Ideas

My List Of Ten

The ideas in these 10 books were critical in the development of my thinking as an educator and parent. 

EDUCATION

  • Teacher, Sylvia Ashton-Warner, 1963.
  • How Children Fail, John Holt, 1964
  • Death at an Early Age, Jonathan Kozol, 1967
  • Crisis in the Classroom, Charles E. Silberman, 1970
PSYCHOLOGY

  • On Becoming a Person, Carl R. Rogers, 1961
  • Children: the Challenge, Rudolf Dreikurs and Vicki |Soltz, 1964
  • Toward a Psychology of Being, Abraham H. Maslow, 1968
  • Freedom to Learn, Carl R. Rogers, 1969
  • Love, Leo Buscaglia, 1972
MANAGEMENT

  • The Human Side of Enterprise, Douglas McGregor, 1960