Education books to make you think

A Listmania! list by Lucy H. Pearce
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How Children Fail
1.  How Children Fail by John Holt
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  "The ultimate must read book on why schools don't work and how kids learn- not so much of a fan of How children Learn."
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Teaching as a Subversive Activity
2.  Teaching as a Subversive Activity by N. Postman
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  "For questioners everywhere- a classic for good reason"
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Teacher's Toolkit: Raise Classroom Achievement with Strategies for Every Learner
3.  Teacher's Toolkit: Raise Classroom Achievement with Strategies for Every Learner by Paul Ginnis
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  "Lots of great active learning strategies, superbly written"
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Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling
4.  Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling by John Taylor Gatto
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  "Another classic to really make you think. A great and very readable thesis on the real driving force behind modern education and why tinkering round the edges aint going to change a thing."
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You Know the Fair Rule: Strategies for Making the Hard Job of Discipline in Schools Easier
5.  You Know the Fair Rule: Strategies for Making the Hard Job of Discipline in Schools Easier by Rogers. Bill
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  "A really useful, realistic, humourous and enlightened guide to classroom discipline"
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And the Skylark Sings with Me: Adventures in Homeschooling and Community-based Education
6.  And the Skylark Sings with Me: Adventures in Homeschooling and Community-based Education by David H. Albert
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  "True education. one family's inspiring  adventures in home schooling- if only we could all have such wonderful learning journeys."
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Free Range Education: How Home Education Works
7.  Free Range Education: How Home Education Works by Terri Dowty
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  "An English  group of case studies from home schooling families."
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The Unschooling Handbook
8.  The Unschooling Handbook by Mary Griffith
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  "Initially extreme sounding if you're used to prescribed curricula and timetables, but ultimately inspiring."
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Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise and Other Bribes
9.  Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise and Other Bribes by Alfie Kohn
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  "Dispells the Skinnerian behaviourist myths which have become enshrined in our culture: gold stars do not a good child make and praise is just as damaging as punishment. Infact anything by this author"
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Multiple Intelligences: New Horizons in Theory and Practice
10.  Multiple Intelligences: New Horizons in Theory and Practice by Howard Gardner
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  "A broader view of intelligence"
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You are your Child's First Teacher: What Parents Can Do with and for Their Children from Birth to Age Six (Early Years)
11.  You are your Child's First Teacher: What Parents Can Do with and for Their Children from Birth to Age Six (Early Years) by Rahima Baldwin Dancey
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  "Spiritully informed holistic hands on education for pre schoolers"
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