Teacher Tips
30 March, 2009
“Teach a child how to think, not what to think.”
— Sidney Sugarman
No one, I think, can quite grasp the totality of his ambitions-his voracious reading in history and politics, in the literatures of Europe, the Americas, and the Middle East. For me the characteristic gesture of both his cultural and political writing (which, despite his claim to lead “two lives’” always seemed to me all of a piece) was the turn from the straight, predictable path, the reversal of field, the interrupted itinerary.
