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Title: Same as the rest...
Review: This book is pretty much the same as the rest, only more amateurishly done in many ways. The rpint is big, it sort of looks like it was self-printed, and it has little research to back up what it says. It offers idyllic, utopian notions of what teaching "should" be. It doesn't ground itself in the real world, and the only saving grace is that the author admits that many of his ideas are more ideal than realistic. He occasionally uses phrases like "I would be willing to bet...", as if somehow making guesses based on personal preferences counts as quality educational theory. There's nothing new offered by this book; it's the same issues being rehashed by another author. It's not that the ideas are bad, it's just that there's nothing here that will surprise any teacher with more than a week's worth of experience.
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