About Becoming a Teacher

William Ayers is Distinguished Professor of Education and Senior University Scholar at the University of Illinois at Chicago (retired), education activist, and author of Teaching the Taboo: Courage and Imagination in the Classroom (with Rick Ayers), To Teach: The Journey of a Teacher, Third Edition, and To Teach: The Journey, in Comics (with Ryan Alexander-Tanner).

"William Ayers is an always-astute writer on the relationship between teaching and society; he is critical, funny, philosophical, poetic, warm."—Rethinking Schools