“I Won’t Learn From You” And Other Thoughts on Creative Maladjustment “I Won’t Learn From You” And Other Thoughts on Creative Maladjustment, by Herbert Kohl, is a collection of five inspirational and optomistic essays, which are at the forefront of current thinking on urban education. While the main focus of Kohl’s book is creative maladjustment, each of the five essays follows its own theme. They include the student’s denial to learn, the significance of teaching hope, creative maladjustment to social injustice, the relation between and confusion o