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Walking on Water

Reading, Writing, and Revolution

by Derrick Jensen

Praise

"Jensen deserves four checkmarks for courage . . . His ideas are always radical and often inspiring. He rails against the public education system frequently and with refreshing humor, telling students their papers "have to be good enough--interesting enough--that I would rather read them than make love." Jensen's strength lies in his honest, provocative, passionate approach . . . Jensen's first, second, third and fourth rules of writing are don't bore the reader. In that effort, he succeeds masterfully."

—Publisher's Weekly 2/9/04

"[Jensen]…deftly wraps his politics in humor, poignant teacher-student encounters and a clear passion for young minds. Jensen is an important, alternative voice of our times."

—Mercury News

"Almost brutal in its honesty, revealing of the ways the system reproduces itself, and liberating . . Jensen's Walking on Water is an act of hope, of resistance, of life-affirmance, that calls for the end of what my brother, Delbert Africa, aptly called a 'deathstyle.'"

—Mumia Abu Jamal, author of Live From Death Row and Faith of Our Fathers

"The clarity and force of these ideas cut like a scalpel in the hands of a surgeon, preserving the vital, removing the diseased. Mr. Jensen burns sharp holes in the dark places of those rituals we have been tricked into believing are education. We owe him a debt of gratitude for these transformational insights. Read this book!"

—John Taylor Gatto, author of Dumbing Us Down

"I would urge all teachers' colleges and schools of education to get rid of their textbooks and required courses and instead give everyone preparing to be a teacher a copy of Derrick Jensen's Walking on Water. It is a superb commentary on learning, for both teachers and students--practical and visionary at the same time."

—Howard Zinn, author of A People's History of the United States