{"product_id":"a-gift-of-wonder-a-true-story-showing-school-as-it-should-be-9781584209546","title":"A Gift of Wonder: A True Story Showing School as It Should Be","description":"Can you remember the world of movement, wonder, and intense sensation that you lived in when you were six years old? Does education mean filling a bucket or does it mean lighting a fire? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn today's predominant educational environment, where high-stakes testing and anxiety reign, it's clear that the goal, though implicit, is to fill buckets. Kim Allsup would like us to start lighting fires--to stop treating children like empty buckets. She sees that the vital essence of education has been sucked out of most schools today; that we must strive, above all, to it bring it back; and that the situation is indeed urgent. Yet this book contains no arguments--it is not a change-of-policy proposal, nor is it a polemical treatise. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eKim Allsup is a teacher and a teller of stories, and so this book, to look only at the surface, tells the story of the six years a teacher spent with her class. However, it does much more than that. Funny, poignant, moving, relatable, and finally, life-affirming, and hopeful, this memoir gently shows the way to an educational approach that is worthy of childhood--\u003ci\u003eone rooted in wonder.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eWonder\u003c\/i\u003e is a challenging word. It has been overused and commercialized and its true definition is perhaps endangered, but it is nevertheless a uniquely human experience, and to stifle or remove it from the lives of our children is to court a barren and dismal future--yet wonder remains alive! We may need only to be reminded of it. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis story is a living reminder of the simple beauty of childhood wonder and our responsibility to the future never to give it up.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAllsup, Kim:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003eKim Allsup\u003c\/b\u003e has a B.A. from Brown University and a M.Ed. and Waldorf Certification from Antioch New England Graduate School. She has been teaching at the Waldorf School of Cape Cod for more than twenty years.","brand":"Lindisfarne Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50420930281746,"sku":"9781584209546","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_1f3a1c3f-79d0-4130-811f-56ab04110932.jpg?v=1729497993","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/a-gift-of-wonder-a-true-story-showing-school-as-it-should-be-9781584209546","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}