Book TV: Professor Bill Ayers

Professor Ayers, Distinguished Professor of Education and Senior University Scholar at the University of Illinois at Chicago, was a leader in the anti-war movement during the Vietnam War (Students for a Democratic Society and the Weather Underground). His books include: "The Good Preschool Teacher: Six Teachers Reflect on Their Lives" (1989), "To Teach: The Journey of a Teacher" (1993), "A Kind and Just Parent: The Children of Juvenile Court" (1997), "Fugitive Days: A Memoir" (2001), "On the Side of the Child: Summerhill Revisited" (2003), "Teaching Toward Freedom: Moral Commitment and Ethical Action in the Classroom" (2004), and "Teaching the Personal and the Political: Essays on Hope and Justice" (2004). His latest book, co-authored with Bernardine Dohrn, is "Race Course: Against White Supremacy." Prof. Dohrn will join the discussion during the last hour of the program.

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[Boris82much]

@MsAAtkinson Haven't his 'awesome ideas on education' been in use in the unionized public school system for years now? I do believe so and here's just a brief example; "I seen you conversatin' with him and you be axin' him all kinda questions and him and me, we have took your advice and we seen the teacher already."

[deliciousmorton]

@Vallcon ...a whole what? you didn't finish writing your first sentence, so i really don't understand what you are saying (or asking).

[Vallcon]

@deliciousmorton Shouldn't you be stuffing your head in a whole. FOX any-day before associates press, or government networking.

[MsAAtkinson]

Regardless of your view of his past, Bill Ayers has awesome idea about education and what that should look like.

[TheJomogogo]

@Boris82much

Yeah Ayer's has a lot in common with another 60's personality, Charles Manson.

[Boris82much]

Google the name Donna Ron. A few years ago she had the courage to post to the internet what her 'friend' Ayers did to her in the late 60's. Today it's called rape. Gang rape.

[deliciousmorton]

@dmshlds shouldn't you be watching FOX news?

[dmshlds]

@deliciousmorton

Bill Ayers is a TERRORIST. He led the weather underground, bombed government buildings and should be in prison not teaching tomorrows youth!

[deliciousmorton]

i'm in solidarity with bill ayers.