Gift of Wonder A True Story Showing School as It Should Be

By: ALLSUP, KIM

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Lindisfarne Press:

Seller ID: 14884

ISBN: 1584209542

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Can you remember the world of movement, wonder, and intense sensation that you lived in when you were six years old? Does education mean filling a bucket or does it mean lighting a fire? In today’s predominant educational environment, where high-stakes testing and anxiety reign, it’s clear that the goal, though implicit, is to fill buckets. Kim Allsup would like us to start lighting fires—to stop treating children like empty buckets. She sees that the vital essence of education has been sucked out of most schools today; that we must strive, above all, to it bring it ... View more info