John’s Interview with Holistic Educator and podcaster Ba Luvmour

2 October 2018

Meetings with Remarkable Educators. October 2018 – 

(From show’s description on podcast website):

When John Creger met his first class of sophomores at American High School in Fremont CA, he had an intuition to give them what his own high school education had failed to give him: a sense of who he was. That first year John introduced an experiment he calls the Personal Creed Project. For nearly three decades students have described their experience with the Creed Project and John’s course in thought-provoking terms.

John’s classroom research has centered on explaining the widespread, continuing enthusiasm for the project from high school and college classrooms across the country. What he has learned has altered his fundamental understanding of the nature of learning and how educators can engage it. John has come to regard self-knowledge as the missing region of curriculum—and the missing ingredient we all need if we are to engage more deeply in learning. 

This conversation was a turning point for John — to be interviewed by someone he had so much to learn from. As a holistic educator with expertise in developmental psychology, Ba is an amazing source of knowledge and wisdom. John was so engaged in Ba’s work that he worries he interviewed his interviewer almost as much as he was interviewed! 

He hopes his friends in the PCO will take the opportunity to get to know this incredible resource and the books and other materials Ba and his wife Josette have available. In the interview John covers at length how the Personal Creed Project came into being, what it consists of, and how it meets the developmental needs of teenagers. The interview ends with Ba and John enthusiastically discovering their mutual love and admiration for the work of Bob Dylan.