Herbert Kohl (education)

This article refers to Herbert Kohl, the educator and author. For the article about the U.S. Senator, see Herbert Kohl (senator).

Herbert Kohl is the author of more than thirty books on education, including the acclaimed 36 Children, The Open Classroom, The Discipline of Hope: Learning from a Lifetime of Teaching, Growing Minds: On Becoming a Teacher, I Won't Learn from You: And Other Thoughts on Creative Maladjustment, and Should We Burn Babar? Essays on Children's Literature and the Power of Stories. He has also written A Grain of Poetry: How to Read Contemporary Poems and Make Them a Part of Your Life and Making Theater: Developing Plays With Young People. In addition, he has co-edited A Call to Character: A Family Treasury, in response to William Bennett's book, The Children's Book of Virtues.

Mr. Kohl received a Bachelor's degree in philosophy from Harvard; a Master's degree in special education from Teacher's College, Columbia; and was a Henry Fellow at Oxford in philosophy.

Kohl is currently the director of the Institute for Social Justice and Education in the University of San Francisco's School of Education..