The Bitter Root

Educating the Wayward Scholar by James Andrews

With humour, insight and thirteen years in the classroom, James Andrews offers that most essential ingredient of good teaching: an understanding of real children, not the theoretical ones of many educational textbooks.

The Bitter Root asks why, after thousands of years of formal education, we fail to understand the full impact of some very basic classroom concepts. Free from acronyms, jargon and flowcharts, it relies for its evidence on history and literature, convincingly arguing that a view from the shoulders of yesterday's giants reveals far more than many of today's educational theories. The book is a celebration of the art of teaching, capturing the true mood of the profession behind the fixed grins of the politicos; a confirmation of what teachers think but often don't dare say. To teachers, parents and past pupils of a certain age, it is a highly amusing dose of common sense.

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"The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet."
Aristotle