...[W]hat is most urgently needed is a paradigm shift from looking at education for society's sake to building a society that serves the essential needs of education.”
—Daisaku Ikeda
About Iain
My experiences as a public school student drove me into teaching with a mind for reform. Yet my experiences as a teacher drove me to a complete rethinking of what it means to be educated. Foremost in my mind is the question of purpose—what John Dewey termed “...
Causes Iain Coggins Supports
Education as a human right, rather than as a privilege or an opportunity.
Iain’s Favorite Books
Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, The Dream of Scipio, The Chymical Wedding, Utopia, 1984, The Martian Chronicles, John Carter of Mars,...