Painting Chinese: A Lifelong Teacher Gains the Wisdom of Youth - Hardcover

The National Book Award-winning author of A View from the Oak describes his experiences with a group of young children as together they share a class in Chinese landscape painting, describing what he learned from the youngsters and the wisdom he discovered in the formal tenets of Chinese landscape painting.

Herbert Kohl is the author of more than forty books, including 36 Children, The Open Classroom, I Won’t Learn from You, Stupidity and Tears and A View from the Oak, which we wrote with his wife, Judith, and which won the National Book Award for children’s literature. He was the founder and first director of Teachers’ and Writers’ Collaborative and established the Center for Teaching Excellence for Social Justice at the University of San Francisco. He is a senior fellow at the Open Society Institute, a part of the Soros Foundation Network. He lives in Point Arena, California.