How to Think Like Shakespeare: Lessons from a Renaissance Education - Paperback

$14.95

How to Think Like Shakespeare: Lessons from a Renaissance Education - Paperback

Name: How to Think Like Shakespeare: Lessons from a Renaissance Education - Paperback
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SKU: 9780691227696
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by Scott Newstok

$14.95

Book Overview

A lively and engaging guide to vital habits of mind that can help you think more deeply, write more effectively, and learn more joyfully

How to Think like Shakespeare is a brilliantly fun exploration of the craft of thought--one that demonstrates what we've lost in education today, and how we might begin to recover it. In fourteen brief chapters that draw from Shakespeare's world and works, and from other writers past and present, Scott Newstok distills enduring practices that can make learning more creative and pleasurable.

Challenging a host of today's questionable notions about education, Newstok shows 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. And while few of us can hope to approach the genius of the Bard, we can all learn from the exercises that shaped him.

Written in a friendly, conversational tone and brimming with insights, How to Think like Shakespeare enacts the thrill of thinking on every page, reviving timeless--and timely--ways to stretch your mind and hone your words.

ISBN	9780691227696
Author	Scott Newstok
Publisher	Princeton University Press
Genre	Education and Literature
Format	Paperback
Published	August 2021
Language	ENG- English
Pages	208
Weight	1.0 lb
Target Audience	Adults
Print Size	Standard Print

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