The Accepting One (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781726441735)

Peter Majoy's devotion to human rights, to learning, and to educating others began as Clinic Supervisor of New York's first Methadone Maintenance Program at Richmond Memorial Hospital, Staten Island, in 1976, and continued as a public school teacher in several public school systems in the New York, New Jersey, and New England areas, culminating in the founding of SNTAS/NESA at Nashua High, NH. This school-within-a-school program pursued the Paideia Proposal* by Mortimer Adler, and became involved with the Coalition of Essential Schools, which reflected the groundbreaking, anti-bureaucratic school concepts of Thayer Academy's Dennis Littky. Nominated by Holmdel High School in Holmdel, N.J. for Princeton's Award for Distinguished Secondary School Teaching, and with educational achievement and degrees in philosophy, theology, and English education, Majoy's life has been, and remains, devoted to the education of the mind, the soul, and the heart. *National Paideia Center Declaration of Principles: All children are educable; Education is never completed in school or higher institutions of learning, but is a lifelong process of maturity for all citizens; The primary cause of learning is the activity of the child's mind, which is not created by, but only assisted by the teacher; Multiple types of learning and teaching must be utilized in education, not just teacher lecturing, or telling; A student's preparation for earning a living is not the primary objective of schooling.