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Title: Disappointing
Review: This book may be illuminating for those teachers, parents and tutors who do not believe that such a thing as work inhibition exists (calling it "laziness" instead), but I don't really believe such people exist anymore.The experienced educator or perplexed parent reading this book in hopes of learning something new about work inhibition and how to treat it will be disappointed. Points that most of us accept as obvious (e.g. that work inhibition is orthogonal to "intelligence") are lengthily supported by dubious surveys and statistics. More problematic points (e.g. that potentially WI students can be identified early on by overly "clingy" behavior) are stated as postulates.Some practical approaches are suggested for dealing with WI. They are all obvious.A guidance counselor or teacher trying to bring a punishment-oriented (as opposed to treatment- and education-oriented) principal into the 20th century may find that this book will help to legitimize her or his concern
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