There seems to be widespread agreement that--when it comes to the writing skills of college students--we are in the midst of a crisis. In Why They Can't Write, John Warner, who taught writing at the college level for two decades, argues that the problem isn't caused by a lack of rigor, or smartphones, or some generational character defect. Instead, he asserts, we're teaching writing wrong. W…
Twelve-year-old Mary Hayes can't stand her orphanage for another night. But when an attempted escape through the stove pipe doesn't go quite as well as she'd hoped, Mary fears she'll be stuck in the Buffalo Asylum for Young Ladies forever. The very next day, a mysterious woman named Madame Z appears at the orphanage requesting to adopt Mary, and the matron's all too happy to get the girl off…
Kiai Wahid, demikian dia biasa disapa, merupakan tokoh pembaru pesantren sekaligus pendidikan islam negeri ini. Sepulangnya menyantri di sejumlah pesantren di Jawa timur dan menuntut ilmu di Negeri Arab, ayah mantan Presiden Abdurrahman Wahid ini mengubah sistem pendidikan Pesantren Tebuireng dengan memasukkan pendidikan umum. Kepiawaiannya dalam berorganisasi dan berpolitik membuat Wahid Ha…
Sutomo atau Bung Tomo ialah tokoh "pemberontak" termasyhur. Pidato-pidatonya--yang dibuka dan ditutup dengan lagu Tiger Shark karya Peter Hodgkinson asal Inggris--selalu meneriakkan "Allahu Akbar". Sosoknya terekam kuat dalam potret diri yang mengacungkan telunjuk dengan tatapan mata tajam. Lewat Radio Pemberontakan, suara Bung Tomo berapi-api membakar semangat pejuang Republik Indonesia ter…