Found this in some of the reading for my Teaching Writing class, and just had to share. Also, see above the highlighted portion where he talks about mimeographing and how teachers should lobby hard to get a laser printer purchased for their school.
Because of this, you might not think this dead white guy has much to say about modern education in America, but, believe it or not, so many of his ideas about student-centered and student-directed learning follow along very closely with the curriculum of both of my other classes: Intro to Tech for Educators and Educational Psych. Turns out James Moffatt was actually quite ahead of his time when he published, in 1968, his truly seminal text Student-Centered Language Arts, K-12.
So it's OK to giggle when he warns that photocopying might be expensive, but I'm glad I didn't give up on him then. He really is full of worthwhile things to say about how we should teach writing in our classrooms.
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