Walking On Water: Reading, Writing And Revolution
by Derrick Jensen
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Remember the days of longing for the hands on the classroom clock to move faster? Most of us would say we love to learn, but we hated school. Why is that? What happens to creativity and individuality as we pass through the educational system? Walking on Water is a startling and provocative look at teaching, writing, creativity, and life by a writer increasingly recognized for his passionate and articulate critique of modern civilization. This time Derrick Jensen brings us into his show more classroom--whether college or maximum security prison--where he teaches writing. He reveals how schools perpetuate the great illusion that happiness lies outside of ourselves and that learning to please and submit to those in power makes us into lifelong clock-watchers. As a writing teacher Jensen guides his students out of the confines of traditional education to find their own voices, freedom, and creativity. Jensen's great gift as a teacher and writer is to bring us fully alive at the same moment he is making us confront our losses and count our defeats. It is at the center of Walking on Water, a book that is not only a hard-hitting and sometimes scathing critique of our current educational system and not only a hands-on method for learning how to write, but, like Julia Cameron's The Artist's Way, a lesson on how to connect to the core of our creative selves, to the miracle of waking up and arriving breathless (but with dry feet) on the far shore. show lessTags
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A bit more anarchistic than my usual fare, but it’s a thought-provoking book. Any book that makes you question why you do what you do is well worth the time, and this one certainly does that.
I love the different threads of this book and the way they are combined: writing, teaching, and the environment. Jensen passionately advocates for all three. You wish you could be in his writing class, because you know it would be a life-changing experience (in fact, it's an actual class assignment).
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Derrick Jensen is the best-known voice, of the growing deep ecology movement. Winner of numerous awards and honors including the Eric Hoffer Book Award, USA Today's Critic's Choice, and Press Action s Person of the Year, Jensen is the author of over fifteen books, including Endgame, A Language Older Than Words, What We Leave Behind (with Aric show more McBay) and Deep Green Resistance (with McBay and Lierre Keith). Philosopher, teacher, and radical activist, he regularly stirs packed auditoriums across the country with revolutionary spirit. Jensen holds degrees in creative writing and mineral engineering physics. He lives in Crescent City, California. show less
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- Nonfiction, General Nonfiction, Philosophy, Biography & Memoir
- DDC/MDS
- 371.102 — Society, government, & culture Education Schools and their activities; special education Teachers; Teaching personnel; Professors, masters instructors Personal influence
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- LB1025.3 .J45 — Education Theory and practice of education Theory and practice of education Teaching (Principles and practice)
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