Tom Bentley has combined his experience in education advice with think tank type creativity. This book was very easily read yet surprising in several ways. If you want to be challenged read this today. Tom seems to have become impatient with the inertia of our education system. He neatly sidesteps that problem by siding with Ivan Illich's de-schooled society. The result is holistic learning from all parts of society. Can we accept that self esteem is necessary for optimal learning? If so, that would make us all responsible for each other's self esteem as learners and everything else. No sledging not even in the middle! What paradise!
A well-informed and challenging framework from which to holistically apply accelerated learning in the 21st century. The author has settled for a well chosen, marketable though small set of innovative learning ideas. Our capacity for multiple intelligences (Howard Gardner), neural, experiential and reflective intelligence (David Perkins) and emotional intelligence (Daniel Goleman) are seen as seeds of experiential learning in Bentley's call for revival of Illich's de-schooled society. I liked the metaphors of schools as prisons and factories. The allusions have truth while being largely untrue. What would Rousseau say of experiential learning through solving real world problems?
This would have been worth six stars if learning giants Comenius, Lozanov, Kitaigorodskaya, Saferis and Asher had rated a mention. Still these pioneers came up with ways to make classrooms and schools great places to learn and develop. The schoolie tag should not stop inclusion here though. It has not stopped accelerated learning greats Tony Stockwell, Glenn Capelli, Tom Pike, Alan Sieler, Alan Silcock, Bobbi DePorter Charlotte LeHecka and Tony Buzan. They convince business world learners of their unlimited potential with great success. Worth every penny!
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