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mxae's review
challenging
emotional
informative
inspiring
medium-paced
5.0
Excellent collection for anyone who ever interats with a child which is to say everyone. Some of the poetic pauses are a bit of a miss for me but the overall collection is amazing.
decie's review
4.25
I started the book thinking "we should respect kids more" and ended it thinking "....okay yeah, we should abolish schools." I did not expect this book to be so focused on anarchy, but I'm glad it was.
cebolla's review
4.0
This is an awesome book on a super important and unfortunately undercovered topic. Most of the essays gave me much to think about and some even made me see children in a different light. Two things prevented me from giving it the full five stars: a couple of the essays were so mind numbingly boring that they made me want to hit myself in the head repeatedly (they both seemed as if they were someone's thesis); and AK Press's insistence on capitalizing internet and refusal to capitalize Earth.
chelford's review against another edition
5.0
This collection is incredible! It didn't particularly challenge any of my views, but it explained some things I already believe far more eloquently than I could, and introduced some new ideas that just make sense to me. I will say it tipped me a little more towards less institutionalized education, but that might just be the serendipity of reading the set of essays on education right at the same time I found an inclusive, secular, homeschooling co-op preschool. I do wish that certain chapters had contained citations, but I'd still absolutely recommend this to just about anyone.
emcort's review
adventurous
challenging
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
fast-paced
5.0