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# The End of the Rainbow: How Educating for Happiness Not Money Would Transform Our Schools

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        			Praise for Susan Engel&apos;s &quot;Your Child&apos;s Path&quot; &quot;The perfect antidote to the high anxiety that pervades parenting these days.&quot;--Edward Hallowell, author of &quot;The Childhood Roots of Adult Happiness&quot;&quot;A technically thoughtful and beautifully written book.&quot;--Jerome S. Bruner, NYU professor of psychology and author of &quot;The Process of Education&quot;&quot;A liberating book.&quot;--Roger A. Hart, professor of environmental and developmental psychology, The Graduate Center of the City University of New York&quot;A compassionate guide for parents and educators.&quot;--&quot;Kirkus Reviews&quot;&quot;Insightful...the author knows her stuff and is a wonderful storyteller.&quot;--&quot;Publishers Weekly&quot;Praise for Susan Engel&apos;s &quot;Your Child&apos;s Path&quot; &quot;The perfect antidote to the high anxiety that pervades parenting these days.&quot;--Edward Hallowell, author of &quot;The Childhood Roots of Adult Happiness&quot; &quot;A technically thoughtful and beautifully written book.&quot;--Jerome S. Bruner, NYU professor of psychology and author of &quot;The Process of Education&quot; &quot;A liberating book.&quot;--Roger A. Hart, professor of environmental and developmental psychology, The Graduate Center of the City University of New York &quot;A compassionate guide for parents and educators.&quot;--&quot;Kirkus Reviews&quot; &quot;Insightful...the author knows her stuff and is a wonderful storyteller.&quot;--&quot;Publishers Weekly&quot;&quot;What, in our hearts, do we wish for our children, and how can schools be designed to help make those wishes come true? These are the most fundamental questions we can ask when thinking about schooling, and in this book Susan Engel combines good sense and empirical research to help us think about them.&quot;--Peter Gray, author of  Free to Learn: Why Unleashing the Instinct to Play Will Make Our Children Happier, More Self-Reliant, and Better Students for Life &quot;A most enjoyable and provocative read, The End of the Rainbow invites readers to consider the purpose of schooling. Through anecdote and the use of scientific research, Engel makes the argument that schools aim for productivity rather than happiness, with the latter falling by the wayside.&quot;--Roberta Michnick Golinkoff, author of How Babies Talk, Einstein Never Used Flash Cards, and A Mandate for Playful Learning in Preschool  Praise for Susan Engel&apos;s Your Child&apos;s Path  &quot;The perfect antidote to the high anxiety that pervades parenting these days.&quot;--Edward Hallowell, author of The Childhood Roots of Adult Happiness &quot;A technically thoughtful and beautifully written book.&quot;--Jerome S. Bruner, NYU professor of psychology and author of The Process of Education &quot;A liberating book.&quot;--Roger A. Hart, professor of environmental and developmental psychology, The Graduate Center of the City University of New York &quot;A compassionate guide for parents and educators.&quot;--Kirkus Reviews &quot;Insightful...the author knows her stuff and is a wonderful storyteller.&quot;--Publishers Weekly 
				    	
					
        		
        		
        	
        
        	
        		About the Author
        	
        	
        		
        			Susan Engel is a developmental psychologist in the Department of Psychology at Williams College, where she is also the founder and director of the Williams Program in Teaching. She is the author of four previous books, The Stories Children Tell: Making Sense of the Narratives of Childhood, Context is Everything: The Nature of Memory, Real Kids: Creating Meaning in Everyday Life, and Red Flags or Red Herrings: Predicting Who Your Child Will Become. During 2006&#x96;2007 she wrote a column on teaching for the New York Times titled Lessons. Engel has also made numerous appearances on radio and television, including on Good Morning America and The Today Show, as an expert on education and child-rearing.

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## Customer Reviews

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    A breath of fresh air
  

*by D***N on Reviewed in the United States on 14 March 2015*

This book is a breath of fresh air amidst today's stultifying educational debates. It is a reason for hope, moving us away from trendy efforts to use schooling simply as a means to produce cogs for our economic machines and back towards traditional concerns for students' future lives. Better workers, too, will be educated in this way: more creative, more motivated, more fulfilled. The book is full of illuminating insight and sound practical advice. Everyone interested in education and human development should read it.

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    where is montessori?
  

*by T***A on Reviewed in the United States on 3 August 2015*

Interesting collection of ideas - American society seems to focus on money as end goal even from the early years of education - instead of allowing children to delve deeply into topics they care about, they are funneled narrowly to comply with policies..ok. I am so surprised that the benefits of Montessori education were neglected in this book. If the emphasis is on public education, there are plenty of public montessori schools to investigate and propel into the spotlight as something that can work...and a good direction for policymakers/journalists/educators to pursue and be inspired by.

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    Required reading for parents and all educators
  

*by T***G on Reviewed in the United States on 7 April 2015*

This is an important book- and should be read widely by all who are interested in the future of our young people.  HIgher education should have a higher purpose than just to ensure financial security and safety in the status quo.  Enlightened college graduates, who learn to think and want to think,  are essential if our world is  to survive.

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