Herbert Kohl (education)

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For the article about the U.S. Senator, see Herbert Kohl (senator).

Herbert Kohl is the acclaimed author of more than thirty books on education, including:

• 36 Children
• The Question Is College: On Finding and Doing Work You Love
• From Archetype to Zeitgeist: Powerful Ideas for Powerful Thinking
• The Open Classroom
• The Discipline of Hope: Learning from a Lifetime of Teaching
• Growing Minds: On Becoming a Teacher
• I Won't Learn from You: And Other Thoughts on Creative Maladjustment
• Should We Burn Babar? Essays on Children's Literature and the Power of Stories
• A Grain of Poetry: How to Read Contemporary Poems and Make Them a Part of Your Life
• Making Theater: Developing Plays With Young People
• Stupidity and Tears: Teaching and Learning in Troubled Times
• The View from the Oak: The Private Worlds of Other Creatures (National Book Award for Children's Literature)
• On Teaching
• Book of Puzzlements
• The Age of Complexity
• Reading, How to: A People's Guide to Alternatives to Learning and Testing
• Nurturing one's dreams: A review of Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of hope

In addition, he has co-edited A Call to Character: A Family Treasury, in response to William Bennett's book, The Children's Book of Virtues.

Mr. Kohl received a Bachelor's degree in philosophy from Harvard; a Master's degree in special education from Teacher's College, Columbia; and was a Henry Fellow at Oxford in philosophy. In his distinguished career, he has taught every grade from kindergarten through college.

Kohl served as the Eugene Lang Visiting Professor for Social Change at Swarthmore College during the 2005-06 academic year. Prior to that, Kohl was the director of the Institute for Social Justice and Education in the University of San Francisco's School of Education. He has also worked as a Senior Fellow at the Open Society Institute.