Teaching Us

Teaching Us: The Class of 1960 at Moses Brown School: Volume I, In Class, is a detailed description of the classroom teaching methods of Moses Brown's extraordinary faculty during the 1950s. This partly autobiographical account is based on the author's personal recollections, interviews with classmates, interviews with surviving faculty and coaches from that era, and on an extensive documentary record of class notes, exams, and textbooks. Here is an intensive review of educational practices at a quality K-12 New England Quaker preparatory school in the 1950s-near the end of the "pre-electronic" classroom instructional era. It describes the learning experiences of students-from their vantage point-long before innovations such as the "New Math," as well as the internet, Google, electronic books, and instant access to a wide range of information sources, began to change primary and secondary education. Teaching Us therefore provides not only an interesting (and often entertaining) glimpse into the classrooms of nearly three-quarters of a century ago, but also provides a useful resource for scholars and historians of education.