Shelf Notes Review Dear Reader,The Element made for an interesting listen, since I audio-booked this. The Audio version had many pros and cons. I'm not a huge fan of self-help books but when I do read one, I prefer to listen to the audio book. This particular book had an excellent narrator and was...
4.4 starsDid you attend a traditional school ? Was your creativity doused by math, english and following the program ? Do you even know what your passion is, or where your talents lie ? I really didn't have any idea when I picked this book up. I can do a little of everything and don't really know wh...
This was my first venture into audiobooks. I feel kind of guilty counting this as "read". Listening to Ken Robinson sure made doing the dishes a lot more enjoyable. What I really took from this audiobook is that our educational system in the U.S. needs a complete overhaul. Well, I already know t...
I'm always interested in folks who see the problem in the mass production of little people-cogs through public education. I watched a TED clip of Ken Robinson and looked up his books, then got this at the library to read, thinking perhaps that since he saw the problem he would have something intere...
This was a fairly good read. I didn't really get into until halfway through. A crime/mystery/detective story set in Paris. The descriptions of Paris were good and the main character was likeable. There wasn't enough excitement or suspense, I guess.