The Discipline of Hope

The first paperback edition of the master educator's insights from four decades in the classroom. The Discipline of Hope chronicles veteran educator Herb Kohl's love affair with teaching since his first encounter forty years ago, chronicled in his now-classic 36 Children. Beginning with his years in New York public schools and continuing throughout his four decades of working with students from kindergarten through college across the country, Kohl has been an ardent advocate of the notion that every student can learn and every teacher must find creative ways to facilitate that learning. In The Discipline of Hope he distills the major lessons of an attentive lifetime in the classroom.

Herbert Kohl has written more than forty books. Recipient of the National Book Award and the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, among others, he was founder and first director of Teachers and Writers Collaborative and is currently director of the Center of Teaching Excellence and Social Justice at the University of San Francisco