Choose one:
To Teach: The Journey of a Teacher (Teachers College Press)
A Kind and Just Parent:The Children of Juvenile Court (Beacon)
Teaching Toward Freedom: Moral Commitment and Ethical Action in the Classroom (Beacon)
City Kids/ City Schools (The New Press)
Then make up your own mind, and send me a comment.
Bill Ayers 
I’m picking one of these up tomorrow! Thanks for all your hard work in service to your community, Bill–and don’t let the nasty hate machine get you down! There are a lot of us who have sane opinions out here; we just get drowned out by the lunatics. Keep up the good work!
Sorry you have to go through all this. It’s not right.
Professor Ayers:
I really enjoyed Teaching Toward Freedom when I read it a couple of years ago. Since I’m an educator myself, your insights are incredibly relevant and useful.
In struggle – now and always,
John A. Duerk
Hi Bill. I remember seeing you briefly once when I was visiting Cathy in your home. Cathy was a friend of mine during the late 50s at Glenbard West. I Understand where you’re coming from, then and now, and I am entirely supportive. It astonishes me that they keep bringing up your name to smear both you and Obama. Keep the faith and know that there are those out there that support you.
We were required to read “To Teach…” for my teaching program at UWashington. As an educator now of 10 years, I am frosted that the current GOP vp candidate is allowed to take on a job at least as important as teaching with less educational requirements than I need for my job. I must have a MEd. to teach. But the vp’s education expectations are???? And sadly, this appears not to be an issue.
I think I might have passed by you this morning on the street. I was too timid to say anything – I wasn’t in Chicago so I wasn’t sure the odds that it was you, and if it was you, you were probably in my town because you were sick of getting stopped on the street.
But I wish I could have told you that I (and a lot of my friends and family) are incredulous that you and your family have been dragged into political mud-slinging. It really isn’t right. I admire that you have dedicated your adulthood to education policy and raising a family. Keep your head up!
I can’t believe that your name continues to be slandered by all the media. I read “To Teach” in college, 15 years ago and never connected that Bill Ayers they describe as you. A “domestic terrorist” did not write the book I read. What are these people smoking/drinking/injecting to taint the truth? Who will stand up for YOU? That book changed my life. I am a teacher today and proud to have read your work. I am going to start spreading the TRUTH.
Dear Professor Ayers,
I have been following this story from Australia. I am currently a PhD student in English and Cultural Studies, but for many years I was a high-school English teacher. I was familiar with your ideas and some of your work prior to the outbreak of this ‘scandal’, particularly in regards to public education, social equity and justice, and the promotion of critical literacies, I agree with what you have to say on Education, and thank you for your professional contributions to scholarly research.
On a personal note, I am appalled at the comments on your site on other threads. Please take heart that there are many who disagree with their views, and many that support you and are sympathetic to the decisions you have made in your life and the contexts in which you made them. Their comments only go to prove that there is a desperate need to continue your work in education. Stay strong, would have loved to have made contact with you under different circumstances.
best,
S
I am ashamed of the behavior of the McCain campaign. I am also a Navy veteran, and I’m afaid that these tactics might actually work. Sean Hannity is a danger to this country.
I’m just expressing my great appreciation for Bill Ayers and the impact he had on me 10 years ago when I read his book “To Teach.” I was studying at UIC in Chicago to be a teacher in the Chicago Public School system. I will never forget the compassion and realism evoked from his writing. In terms of the recent publicity on his credibility: haven’t most people who are worth their salt tried the route of taking a stand against some form of corruption? I applaud Mr. Ayers for his life journey, especially because that path brought him to the University of Chicago Circle Campus where many, many students looked up to his vision in education! Thanks, Bill!!!