He sat on the boards of First Federal Bank of Chicago, Northwestern University, and the Tribune Company. By 1964 he was Edison’s president–and the epitome of the corporate Good Samaritan. That was 1937, and 22-year-old Tom Ayers, the son of a Detroit salesman who had gone broke during the Depression, had just graduated from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. His first job with Commonwealth Edison (then called the Public Service Company of Northern Illinois) was digging ditches and stringing cable. Each year he trains dozens of would-be teachers for private, public, and parochial schools.īeyond that, he has emerged as an influential thinker in the broad-based movement of activists and business leaders to “reform” Chicago’s public schools.Īnd the question that’s bugging me–especially now, as I watch him effortlessly work his magic on these students–is when (or if) the old Bill Ayers ended and the new one began.īy all accounts, Bill’s father Thomas Ayers was one of those lucky, hardworking guys who find their place in a large corporation and rise to the top. He publishes regularly in scholarly journals. He’s written one book on early childhood education, and he’s writing another about teaching. He works in the university’s elementary teacher education program. He’s an assistant professor of education at UIC. These days, he takes his stands aboveground. You have to ask yourself: ‘Will I bow to conformity and accede to the world as it is, or will I take a stand?'” There comes a time in your life when you face a moral challenge. “We were willing to get thrown out of school.
“We were anarchists,” he tells the class. They spent nearly 11 years as fugitives, living on the run “underground.”
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