Eli Whitney Museum

Bill Brown began teaching in the first generation of Head Start while an undergraduate at Kenyon College. He taught in Borneo as a Peace Corps volunteer. He trained as a Social Worker at Columbia and directed the Children’s Aid Society’s programs for handicapped children in New York. In New Haven, he apprenticed with cabinet maker/designer/philosopher Normand Methot.

Mr Brown was the Museum's principal educator and preferred design and direct instruction to all of his other responsibilities.

Late to discover the depth of his dyslexia, Mr Brown studies the ways in which inefficient classroom learners adapt to understand and express themselves themselves. He is a student of alternatives to text reading: direct decoding of mechanics, art, natural forces (water, wind, gravity) and nature.