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Howard Zinn: One of the Great Democratic Educators

Posted on Jan 30, 2010 - 03:10 PM by Melia Dicker in The Landscape

"The interchange between student and teacher, the free inquiry that is promulgated in the classroom, a spirit of equality in the classroom, to me that is part of a democratic education." - Howard Zinn

This week, the world said goodbye to Howard Zinn, an award-winning writer, activist, professor, and role model for democratic educators. He was 87.

Zinn dedicated his life to promoting true democracy and social justice through education and action. Although he spoke and wrote extensively on the injustices that humans have inflicted upon each other, throughout history and in the present, he never lost hope for a more peaceful world.

In one of his last interviews, Zinn said that he wanted...

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