Review: AN ALL CONSUMING EXPERIENCE
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 2, 2013
This is not just a history book, it's a whole education system. It's more about how to teach and how to learn, and should be part and parcel of the curriculum for teachers to understand the anatomy of effective teaching.I was always at the top of my class for every subject, except history. Try as I may, I could not make sense of what I was being taught. It was as though my mind would shut out the past by simply refusing to accept that the history of mankind was nothing but a series of wars, bloodshed and violence strung together by dates to mark victory over another through mass destruction and death.If only I had Miss Jones as my teacher, my mind would have opened up to the deeper realities underlying history. But as she says "not all history is in history books".America is not my country, yet I felt such a connection reading this book as I got involved with the students as they were searching for their clues. Is it a coincidence that the word "involve" contains the word "love"? As you get involved, you fall in love.What I loved most about this book is the awakening the author provides to the mystery contained in words and the series of coincidences that must take place to shape the meaning of that word. A single word can encapsulate a whole doctrine of knowledge and gives new insight into the premise "In the beginning was the Word".Reading this book was an all consuming experience for me.