Nearly fifty years ago, JFK warned, A child miseducated is a child lost Clearly, we have lost far too many children since then It Doesn t Take a Genius was a book filled with tips, examples and above all HOPE for today s educators A commitment to educating properly requires a proper mindset and it seems that McCutcheon and Lindsey are of the school of such a mindset It s just so easy to complain about how hopeless and ridiculous the state of education is in, so it s nice to see when educators se [...]

While I enjoyed having the case studies in the book, they weren t really case studies so much as former students writing about how they finally understood some idea about life There were too many of them for my taste, actually, and some of them were too soppy dedicated to the former teacher rather than actually discussing some idea they finally got I liked the idea of the five principles to teach by, but I would have liked actual case studies, and a shorter, streamlined book.

This is an inspirational book about two debate also called forensics coaches and the students they helped Much of the book are quotes from former students about how influential these coaches were to them But there s not much here about the so called five truths compared to stories about the students and the coaches This is inspirational, but low on actual content that could help teachers.

Lots of motivational messages, good stuff.