The idea that teaching is somehow the delivery of the goods is such a misunderstanding of what actually goes on.

I don't regret setting bombs.

So we were ecstatic and we swirled around spontaneously, the campus in Ann Harbor and about 4,000 of us landed on the steps of the president of the University of Michigan's home.

Art and activism can be symbiotic. They don't have to be, of course; they can also be contradictory.

That's where we all kind of were in the mid-1960s. Students for a Democratic Society grew from a small group of socialists at the university of Michigan into a national organization, and in many ways, its growth was driven by the Vietnam War.

I was a kid and I studied when I had to [live].

What we need is a gigantic, messy community conversation about what is teaching and learning for the 21st century. We need to engage communities.