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0-89587-019-3
$9.95 paperback
6 x 9
255 pages
Appendix, Index
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The story of Highlander is
truly a saga; as is the life of its founder, Myles Horton. I can think
of neither a place nor a man, who more represents the strength of the
independent American spirit. In Highlander and in Horton is the fusion
of learning, and life. It's what education is all about; or should be
about. --Studs Terkel, Author
Unearthing Seeds of Fire is
an exciting account of an impossible dream. A dream that has become true
at Highlander that the poor and dispossessed can learn how to learn.
--Jack London, University of California Nairobi Study Center
...A history of leaders
and groups who are ahead of their time, who resist prevailing trends. --Harvard
Educational Review
...Challenges the popular
view of schools as neutral institutions. --Learning: The Magazine
for Creative Teaching
about the author
Frank Adams worked at Highlander Folk School while he was writing
this book, "trying to learn to 'do' Highlander as well as describe
it." He has been a newspaperman, truck driver, one-time college
dropout, cobbler, and farm laborer. He graduated from Goddard College,
earned a master's degree in the Arts of Teaching at Antioch-Putney
Graduate School in Vermont and Yellow Springs, Ohio, and obtained a
doctorate in education from Walden University in Naples, Florida. He now
lives in Asheville, NC.
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