Weather Underground member Bill Ayers (the guy Palin and McCain were referring to when they said Obama "pals around with terrorists") has re-written his book, To Teach: The Journey of a Teacher, as a graphic novel. It will be published in May. It's called To Teach: The Journey, in Comics and is illustrated by Ryan Alexander-Tanner.
Brian Heater says, "In April Ayers will be appear at the MoCCA Fest in New York to discuss activism in comics on a panel with Peter Kuper, Tom Hart, Josh Neufeld, and Ward Suttton. I will be moderating. In preparation for the panel, I spoke with Ayers over the weekend. He was on his way back from a political rally in Detroit."
In a sense, you’re structuring the classroom as a laboratory of sorts.
I think of the classroom as a laboratory for discovery and surprise, absolutely. And I think every classroom should be like that, whether it’s a geography classroom in high school or a physics classroom in college, or a kindergarten, it ought to be structured as a laboratory for discovery and surprise. And you can add other metaphors to that. You can say it also ought to be a performance space. It ought to be a place you can come to tell your story. It ought to be an artist studio. It ought to be a museum. But notice, all of the metaphors that you and I are coming up with aren’t it ought to be a factory [laughs]–it can be a workshop, but not a factory.
