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The Secret Revolution: A Psychologist's Adventures in Education

by Dr. Emmanuel Bernstein

384 pages; quality trade paperback (softcover); contains B&W images; catalogue #06-2928; ISBN 1-4251-1169-6; US$25.00, C$28.75, EUR20.54, £14.37

Conventional Schooling is shown to be a waste of time for students, parents and communities, while Education is revealed as a promising alternative. Schooling damages students, while Education uplifts them to become the best of themselves.

About the Book

• identify the best and worst teachers
  
• protect yourself and those you love from a terrorist teacher
  
• identify the best and worst schools
  
• join the rebellion against war against education
  
• evaluate students without numbers or letters

And you will learn how:

• education has been improving until recently
  
• tests are weapons of mass destruction
  
• terrorist teachers have ruined people for life
  
• conventional schools are a relic of the past
  
• conventional schooling is based on the structure of the Prussian army

And you will learn about:

• what happens when children are given complete freedom
  
• the kinds of alternative schools in existence
  
• what ideal learning centers of the future could be like
  
• why we have schools, and how our needs have changed
  
• the difference between schooling and education

About the Author

Dr. Bernstein has been fascinated with education for over 60 years. It began at age twelve when he decided to find criteria for the best and worst teachers while in a Conventional sixth grade classroom and wrote about his findings. In his twenties he decided to study children at every age to prepare for a career working with children. He began by working in a nursery school, a children's psychiatric unit and a child guidance clinic. To become a teacher he spent a year at a teachers college, then worked as a teacher over the next years with students of nearly every age, including ones at elementary, high school, college, graduate school, and continuing education levels. He also helped begin and worked in alternative school situations that had blurry or no grade levels and gave no letter or number grades. Between teaching stints he worked as a social worker, elementary and high school guidance counselor, and psychotherapist. His academic training as an undergraduate was at University of Pennsylvania with a Masters from Columbia University Teachers College and a Ph.D. from University of Oregon.

He loved growing up with his two daughters, Bobbie and Vauna, and his son, Arthur, as well as continuing to grow up with his grandchildren, Joseph and Joshua, as well as his son-in-law, Bob. After 25 years of exploring the world, he returned home to the village of Saranac Lake, NY, where he continues to be in private practice as a psychologist, lives with his wife, Meg, and continues to study how people learn best. He loves animals, floating around on water, bicycling, being outdoors, improvisation acting, fixing things, and working in useful jobs, like chopping wood, puttering, and helping people to heal themselves.

He has been a teacher and learning facilitator for beings from three months to ninety years of age. He was also a truck driver, dishwasher, cook, waiter, social worker, high school and elementary school counselor, as well as a psychotherapist.

The author invites comment and conversation via email: mannyber@yahoo.com

Reviews

"In The Secret Revolution, Dr. Bernstein brings to live a monumental collection of philosophies, histories, personal experiences, programs, descriptions, viewpoints, and research calling for a transformation away from uniform schooling toward personalized learning options.

"This staggering compendium is essential reading for parents, educators, politicians for it is perhaps the best book written clarifying the need for educational alternatives — not just for the few — but for everyone."

Don Glines, Director
Educational Futures Project

"During many years in schools, he has seen it all. Dr. Bernstein gives wonderful examples of great teaching as well as tyrant teachers from whom we can learn what not to do."

Lynn Stoddard
Principal, Emeritus

"Dr. Bernstein has written a wonderful book, full of passion and intelligence. It will inspire teachers and parents, and hopefully administrators, politicians, and the general public as well, to reconsider their approach to improving education."

Shir Filler
College Professor

Excerpts