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Feng Shui for the Classroom

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This is a cute little book that would make a charming gift for someone you were sure would never ever read it. Its size, colors and trendy design earned it one star from me.

However, it lacks much genuinely helpful information; about half of its 95 pages are taken up with purely decorative pictures (not diagrams, just pretty little sketches). The pages with text include so much negative space that there is little to read, which is actually a good thing since there are errors in this book. For example, the author states that East is the direction of children and creativity, and that West is the area of family and health (p. 11). This is contrary to every Ba Gua chart I have ever seen, which all have it the other way around (East = family, health, elders; West = children, creativity). The author refers to the Northwest as the direction of Wisdom and Knowledge, but elsewhere I have seen the Northwest as the Authority or Heaven area, with Northeast being the area of Wisdom and Knowledge.
Often the information is sketchy or incomplete. For example, the page about Sea Salt advises one to keep sea salt around to absorb negative chi, but the author never mentions that it should be disposed of regularly. The instructions for using water never specify the direction in which it should be placed, which is rather important.
Overall, this book is about as lightweight as a Feng Shui article in a women's magazine you'd pick up in the grocery store checkout area. Don't buy it if you are serious about using Feng Shui in your classroom.

I loved it! It gives great ideas without lingering over little details. You can flip open a page and just follow the ideas without confusion. Excellent!