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Raising Curious, Creative, Confident Kids: The Pestalozzi Experiment in Child-Based Education

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This is Rebeca Wild's inspiring account of her educational program in
Ecuador created to cherish the dignity, self worth, and creativity of
for both native and European children. Starting with a kindergarten
in the 1960's, she and her husband Maurico have gradually expanded
their school through elementary and high school. It is also the story
of Rebeca Wild's committment to an authentic life, and her steps along
the way. A philology major in college who meets her future husband in
a summertime job driving a tourist bus, she shares with us the ideas
of the authors whom she has found most meaningful and helpful to her
as she creates an educational model that has been replicated in
various parts of the world. Her stories of the struggles to build
each school, her interactions with the students, her thoughts, make
this book come alive. Equally interesting was their experience with
their own children. The brief account of how Maurico allowed his son
to re-experience a traumatic event from the past compels me to agree
with the author on the value of a "reality therapy" that
each of us can apply in our day-to-day life. I felt renewed in my work
with parents and infants as I read it.