David Guterson

Novelist, short story writer, poet, journalist, and essayist

David Guterson (born May 4, 1956) is an American novelist, short story writer, poet, journalist, and essayist.

David Guterson in 2013

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  • We should recognize that schools will never solve the bedrock problems of education because the problems are problems of families, of cultural pressures that the schools reflect and thus cannot really remedy.
    • "When Schools Fail Children: An English Teacher Educates His Kids at Home", Harper's Magazine (November 1990)
  • The status quo was rote memorization and recitation in classrooms thronged with passive children who were sternly disciplined when they expressed individual needs.
    • Family Matters: Why Homeschooling Makes Sense (1992), Ch. 5: "School, Home, and History", p. 109
  • Accident ruled every corner of the universe except the chambers of the human heart.

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