Reimagining the Classroom asks us to reconsider some of our basic assumptions about the world, our relationship to it, and our relationships with each other. It helps educators question and recast these assumptions and practices in order to consider how an educated person might not merely attain personal success but find a deeper flourishing and create a better world.

“ [A]n inquiry, an inspiration, and, perhaps most important, an invitation to dive into the wreckage that surrounds us, and swim as hard as we can toward a fresh approach to teaching and learning, parenting and mentoring. Theodore Richards is a perfect guide: experienced, wise, and courageous.” – Bill Ayers

“[A] radical vision for education in a time of crisis and transformation.” – Arne Duncan

 

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A Letter To My Daughters is the winner of the 2019 Independent Publisher Awards Gold Medal. “Before you were born, I went on a journey that would take me around the world completely, a spherical, three-dimensional journey. A journey of dirt and blood. A journey of taste and bodily sensation. A journey of texture… I am writing to you because I want you to live in this world, to feel it in its fullness, its depth. I want you to fall in love with the world, flawed and sorrowful as it is. Your lives and the world as a whole – these are indistinguishable to me – depend on this.”

“This is travel writing at its most luminous.” – Mirabai Starr

The Great Re-imagining, (Fifth Anniversary Edition) 2018 Foreword Reviews book of the year finalist and winner of the 2018 Nautilus Book Award, explores the deep narratives that have brought us to the brink of apocalypse and invites us to re-imagine our place in the world.

“[A] veritable tour de force offering a critical commentary on today’s tumultuous cultural scene.” – Matthew Fox

“A work of great wisdom and prophetic imagination. Today we need Richards’ work more than ever. I hope everyone reads this book and acts on it!” – Adam Bucko

The Conversions, a novel. “Life and death, love and loss, endings and new beginnings: all these entwine against the backdrop of disaster and social change, with each protagonist bringing to the table his own unique ethnic and social background and his own desires to find a different place in a much-changed world…It’s these diverse protagonists and their perceptions, journeys and interactions that add depth and dimension to The Conversions, making it a highly recommended pick for those who like end-of-world sagas with another level of psychology and insight than your usual American apocalyptic focus provides.” – D. Donovan, Midwest Book Review

Creatively Maladjusted, Foreword by Bill Ayers (10th anniversary edition). Nearly every discussion about schools assumes that the goals of our educational system are appropriate and worthwhile. The narrative of the modern industrial world that defines our values and shapes the metaphors with which we understand our world also determines how we shape our schools, our curricula, our children. From the White House to the little red schoolhouse, these values are seldom questioned. The debate about schools is about test scores, productivity, and quantifiable outcomes. Creatively Maladjusted argues that these values both undermine our children’s learning and, in the cases where children are “successful”, guide our children toward destructive, rather than creative lives.

Cosmosophia (15th anniversary edition) winner of gold medal of the Independent Publisher Book Awards in the religion category and the Nautilus Book Awards Gold Medal in the science and cosmology category.

“If we are to once again experience the cosmos as our womb, to participate meaningfully in the awesome event called the universe, then we must simply work outside, pause, and look at the shining stars, or see a child being born, or listen to a tree’s leaves rustling in the wind, and be amazed. Until we regain this capacity, no set of ideas can save us from ourselves.”

“Theodore Richards takes us on an epic journey. It is his journey and it is our journey. It is humanity’s journey and though it necessarily includes the misery of cruelty and oppression, there is wisdom at work as well. Things could be so different. We wandered away from our African origins so many millennia ago, and though we have become lost and confused, the universe leaves clues everywhere. A new beginning is possible, a new feeling of the interconnectedness of all things is before us. Richards takes us on a journey into the edge of the universe which is the edge of the human being which is the edge of God.” – Brian Swimme