Description: "How to Think like Shakespeare: Lessons from a Renaissance Education" offers an enlightening and entertaining guide to the craft of thought — pondering what we’ve lost in education today, and how we might begin to recover it.
Challenging a host of today’s questionable notions about education, I show how mental play emerges through work, creativity through imitation, autonomy through tradition, innovation through constraint, and freedom through discipline. It was these practices, and a conversation with the past — not a fruitless obsession with assessment — that nurtured a mind like Shakespeare’s. Written in a friendly, conversational tone and brimming with insights, this book enacts the thrill of thinking on every page, reviving
A wonderful new book.
— Martha Barnette , A Way with Words
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