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A Place to Grow: The Culture of Sudbury Valley School
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This book explores the array of principles and practices that have evolved and make up the rich culture that has permeated the school. The Sudbury school model is unique in creating a community that extends to all students the same rights, privileges, and responsibilities available to every adult American for the enjoyment of life, liberty, and the pursuit of a meaningful life. All we did was turn the clock back - or, better, forward - and finish the job the Founding Fathers began...by including children in the ringing phrases of the Declaration of Independence.
This act of moving forward has allowed the multi-faceted culture of the school to develop during the first half century of its existence. A Place to Grow is an in-depth exploration of that cultural development. Sudbury Valley School has become an inspiration for many schools worldwide, and for educators interested in re-thinking traditional school practices.
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In How to Educate a Citizen, E.D. Hirsch continues the conversation he began 30 years ago with his classic best seller Cultural Literacy, urging America’s public schools, particularly at the elementary level, to educate our children more effectively to help heal and preserve the nation. Since the 1960s, our schools have been relying on “child-centered learning”. History, geography, science, civics, and other essential knowledge have been dumbed down by vacuous learning “techniques” and “values-based” curricula.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Must read
- De Redsatyr en 11-18-20
De: E. D. Hirsch
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Experience and Education
- De: John Dewey
- Narrado por: Gary L Willprecht
- Duración: 2 h y 28 m
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Experience and Education is the best concise statement on education ever published by John Dewey, the man acknowledged to be the pre-eminent educational theorist of the twentieth century. Written more than two decades after Democracy and Education (Dewey's most comprehensive statement of his position in educational philosophy), this book demonstrates how Dewey reformulated his ideas....
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great book, but too dense for audio version.
- De Jonathan Homrighausen en 08-06-13
De: John Dewey
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Moral Politics
- How Liberals and Conservatives Think, 3rd Edition
- De: George Lakoff
- Narrado por: Fajer Al-Kaisi
- Duración: 13 h y 57 m
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When Moral Politics was first published two decades ago, it redefined how Americans think and talk about politics through the lens of cognitive political psychology. Today, George Lakoff's classic text has become all the more relevant, as liberals and conservatives have come to hold even more vigorously opposed views of the world, with the underlying assumptions of their respective worldviews at the level of basic morality.
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4 out of 5 stars
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extremely insightful. awful to get through.
- De Dave en 05-09-18
De: George Lakoff
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Philosophy
- Who Needs It
- De: Ayn Rand
- Narrado por: Lloyd James
- Duración: 10 h y 49 m
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Who needs philosophy? Ayn Rand's answer: Everyone. This collection of essays was the last work planned by Ayn Rand before her death in 1982. In it, she summarizes her view of philosophy and deals with a broad spectrum of topics. According to Ayn Rand, the choice we make is not whether to have a philosophy, but which one to have: a rational, conscious, and therefore practical one, or a contradictory, unidentified, and ultimately lethal one.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Deep and provocative
- De Sierra Bravo en 05-21-09
De: Ayn Rand
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Creative Schools
- The Grassroots Revolution That's Transforming Education
- De: Lou Aronica, Ken Robinson
- Narrado por: Ken Robinson PhD
- Duración: 8 h y 13 m
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Ken Robinson is one of the world's most influential voices in education, and his 2006 TED Talk on the subject is the most viewed in the organization's history. Now, the internationally recognized leader on creativity and human potential focuses on one of the most critical issues of our time: how to transform the nation's troubled educational system.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Answer to Why Students Stop Trying
- De Alison Sattler en 07-21-15
De: Lou Aronica, y otros
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The Lies That Bind
- Rethinking Identity
- De: Kwame Anthony Appiah
- Narrado por: Kwame Anthony Appiah
- Duración: 7 h y 18 m
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We all know how identities - notably, those of nationality, class, culture, race, and religion - are at the root of global conflict, but the more elusive truth is that these identities are created by conflict in the first place. In provocative, entertaining chapters, Kwame Anthony Appiah interweaves keen-edged argument with engrossing historical tales and reveals the tangled contradictions within the stories that define us.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Not full of SJW nonsense
- De Frank en 10-22-18
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Gifts Differing
- Understanding Personality Type
- De: Isabel Briggs Myers, Peter B. Myers - with
- Narrado por: Patricia Rodriguez
- Duración: 8 h y 21 m
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Like a thumbprint, personality type provides an instant snapshot of a person's uniqueness. Drawing on concepts originated by Carl Jung, this audiobook distinguishes four categories of personality styles and shows how these qualities determine the way you perceive the world and come to conclusions about what you've seen. It then explains what they mean for your success in school, at a job, in a career, and in your personal relationships.
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3 out of 5 stars
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half/half
- De Lillianne en 03-19-19
De: Isabel Briggs Myers, y otros
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Atheism for Dummies
- De: Dale McGowan PhD
- Narrado por: Paul Mantell
- Duración: 15 h y 49 m
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Atheism For Dummies offers a brief history of atheist philosophy and its evolution, explores it as a historical and cultural movement, covers important historical writings on the subject, and discusses the nature of ethics and morality in the absence of religion. A simple, yet intelligent exploration of an often misunderstood philosophy.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great topic...irritating narrator
- De Duke Playbent en 10-26-14
De: Dale McGowan PhD
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Montessori: A Modern Approach
- The Classic Introduction to Montessori for Parents and Teachers
- De: Paula Polk Lillard
- Narrado por: Randye Kaye
- Duración: 5 h y 46 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 39
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Montessori: A Modern Approach has been called the single best book for anyone - educator, childcare professional, and especially parent - seeking answers to the questions: What is the Montessori method? Are its revolutionary ideas about early childhood education relevant to today's world? And most important, especially for today's dual-career couples, Is a Montessori education right for my child?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great read!
- De laetitia Villamaux en 09-29-20
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Anti-Intellectualism in American Life
- De: Richard Hofstadter
- Narrado por: Adam Verner
- Duración: 16 h y 33 m
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This book throws light on many features of the American character. Its concern is not merely to portray the scorners of intellect in American life, but to say something about what the intellectual is, and can be, as a force in a democratic society.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Still Current, Without Opening Recent Wounds
- De wbiro en 11-09-17
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What's So Great About America
- De: Dinesh D'Souza
- Narrado por: Dinesh D'Souza
- Duración: 6 h y 7 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 393
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America is under attack as never before - not only from terrorists, but from people who provide a rationale for terrorism. Best-selling author Dinesh D'Souza takes on all of America's critics and proves them wrong - as perhaps only a writer with an immigrant's understanding of this country can.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellant!
- De William J. Schleue en 01-02-03
De: Dinesh D'Souza
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Dark Horse
- Achieving Success Through the Pursuit of Fulfillment
- De: Todd Rose, Ogi Ogas
- Narrado por: Roger Wayne
- Duración: 6 h y 46 m
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In Dark Horse, Rose and Ogas show how the four elements of the dark horse mind-set empower you to consistently make the right choices that fit your unique interests, abilities, and circumstances and will guide you to a life of passion, purpose, and achievement.
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5 out of 5 stars
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If you're anything like me, you have to read this
- De Bree en 11-08-19
De: Todd Rose, y otros
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Raising White Kids
- Bringing Up Children in a Racially Unjust America
- De: Jennifer Harvey
- Narrado por: Eliza Foss
- Duración: 8 h y 58 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 159
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Talking about race means naming the reality of white privilege and hierarchy. How do we talk about race honestly, then, without making our children feel bad about being white? Most importantly, how do we do any of this in age-appropriate ways? While a great deal of public discussion exists in regard to the impact of race and racism on children of color, meaningful dialogue about and resources for understanding the impact of race on white children are woefully absent. Raising White Kids steps into that void.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Distracting performance
- De Amazon Customer en 07-24-20
De: Jennifer Harvey
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Weapons of Mass Instruction
- A Schoolteacher's Journey Through the Dark World of Compulsory Schooling
- De: John Taylor Gatto
- Narrado por: Michael Puttonen
- Duración: 8 h y 32 m
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John Taylor Gatto's Weapons of Mass Instruction focuses on mechanisms of traditional education which cripple imagination, discourage critical thinking, and create a false view of learning as a byproduct of rote-memorization drills. Gatto's earlier book, Dumbing Us Down, introduced the now-famous expression of the title into the common vernacular. Weapons of Mass Instruction adds another chilling metaphor to the brief against conventional schooling.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I will never see school the same
- De Nicole en 05-21-15
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Ayn Rand Answers
- The Best of Her Q & A
- De: Ayn Rand
- Narrado por: Bernadette Dunne
- Duración: 10 h
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After the publication of Atlas Shrugged in 1957, Ayn Rand occasionally lectured in order to bring her philosophy of Objectivism to a wider audience and apply it to current cultural and political issues. These taped lectures and the question-and-answer sessions that followed added not only an eloquent new dimension to Ayn Rand's ideas and beliefs, but a fresh and spontaneous insight into Ayn Rand herself.
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5 out of 5 stars
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It sounds like Ayn Rand
- De Anonymous User en 06-09-18
De: Ayn Rand
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre A Place to Grow: The Culture of Sudbury Valley School
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Concepts of freedom explained
I loved how the schools concept started and evolved over time according to the successes and challenges of the school concept in practice.
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