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Stuart Grauer

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Dr. Stuart Grauer, a teacher, is the founder & Head of School Emeritus at The Grauer School. He also holds multiple board seats around the world, including The Grauer Foundation for Education. He isFounder of The Small Schools Coalition which assists with the prosperity and impact of small schools all over the world.

He has been interested in education since he was a young man, becoming the Principal of the International School of Basel, Switzerland at the age of 29.

In 1991 Dr. Grauer founded The Grauer School www.grauerschool.com in order to establish human-scale, connected secondary education in Southern California. He is one of the nation’s top authorities on small schools and community education and consults and speaks widely on this are ...more

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	Real Teachers: True Stories of Renegade Educators 4.10 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 2013 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fearless Teaching: Collected Stories 4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2016 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Magnolia (Identity Formation in the 21st Century)

Whippoorwill’s singing Soft summer breeze Makes me think of my baby I left down in New Orleans I left down in New Orleans When you read a verse like that, pure summer perfection, you could almost throw in the towel on writing. That’s “Magnolia,” by J.J. Cale, who died a year or so ago, and […]

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“This is the setting out.
The leaving of everything behind.
Leaving the social milieu. The preconceptions.
The definitions. The language. The narrowed field of vision. The expectations.
No longer expecting relationships, memories, words, or letters to mean what they used to mean. To be, in a word: Open.”
― —Rabbi Lawrence Kushner

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“This is part of the answer to the riddle of
childhood unhappiness: their minds need, and deserve, a whole world of utterly unfenceable freedom where everything has othering, everything is radiant with the possibilities of
elseness.”
― Jay Griffeths

tags: childhood, education, educational-philosophy, thinking

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“Play is the highest expression of human development in childhood, for it alone is the free expression of what is in a child’s soul,”
― — Froebel

tags: educational-philosophy, play

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“Let children wander aimlessly around ideas.”
― Sugata Mitra

tags: educational-philosophy, teaching

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¡ POETRY ! — 22526 members — last activity May 04, 2026 06:38PM
No pretensions: just poetry. Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to read No pretensions: just poetry. Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to read it!) Goodreads honors wordsmiths: poets and poetry promoted and prompted here. ~~~ "Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits." -- Carl Sandburg “God has a brown voice, as soft and full as beer.” —Anne Sexton On Clouds – “…what primitive tastes the ancients must have had if their poets were inspired by those absurd, untidy clumps of mist, idiotically jostling one another about…” —Yevgeny Zamyatin “If the poet wants to be a poet, the poet must force the poet to revise. If the poet doesn’t wish to revise, let the poet abandon poetry and take up stamp-collecting or real estate.” —Donald Hall “Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea that has run wild, Creation’s tears in shoulder blades.” —Boris Pasternak “Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket.” —Charles Simic “Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.” —Gustave Flaubert “Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It’s that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that’s what the poet does.” —Allen Ginsberg. ~~~~~ Amy King, Moderator Amy King is the recipient of the 2015 Winner of the WNBA Award (Women’s National Book Association). Her latest collection, The Missing Museum, is a winner of the 2015 Tarpaulin Sky Book Prize. She serves on the executive board of VIDA: Women in Literary Arts and is co-editing with Heidi Lynn Staples the anthology, Big Energy Poets of the Anthropocene: When Ecopoets Think Climate Change. She is also co-editing the anthology, Bettering American Poetry 2015, and is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at SUNY Nassau Community College. ...more

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