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Title: Leading a child into independent thinking and learning skill
Review: This book, Fifty Nifty Ways, is on the cutting edge of education's paridigm today. Many teachers will say that they have practiced Dr. Johnson's principals of teaching a child to "learn by figuring it out", before his book came into print. They are the teachers who will be remembered. He highlights learning as a process and when a child discovers on his own, instead of soley reading in a book or hearing from a teacher, then he seeks other answers on his own as well. He becomes what educators hope will happen to him; an independent thinker, always curious, always questioning, and often debating. Children who are given the freedom to learn how to find answers become the independent thinkers we need in our free society. Thank you Dr. Johnson for this wonderful reminder about what education should be; as well as a helpful resource book to guide parents and teachers along this path.Shirley Johnsrud
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