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Awakening Brilliance: How to Inspire Children to Become Successful Learners (Awakening the Love of Learning Series)

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Awakening Brilliance is an enlightening story told with a deep sensitivity for what children need. It convinces us of the desperate need to change the way students are treated in the school system

This book is very easy reading but is loaded with lots of practical information on how to educate children according to the way they learn. Great for parents who homeschool and for those teachers who want to teach on a more personal level.

Pamela Sims is a gifted writer with a lot to say. Her style is easy to read and inspiring. This should be required reading for anyone who is in teaching. I saw a lot of people buying one for themselves and one for their kid's teacher

While the premise of this book is sound, it is too Pollyanna like to be terribly effective. But it makes a good story, sort of "Joshua Goes to the School Yard".
Anyone who is serious about altering our current course will want to read Robert Fuller's Somebodies and Nobodies, Overcoming the Abuse of Rank. He clearly shows the effects of rankism on all levels, and offers what are such obvious solutions that it is amazing to think they have been ignored for this long. Every person of all walks of life should read this book, do a bit of (honest)soul searching and apply the principles set forth.