Education for Life: Preparing Children to Meet Today's Challenges
For twenty years I have served in various roles as teacher, guidance counselor, principal, college instructor, and consultant in public education. During that time I have participated in experimental projects for educational change, seen theories of education come and go, and read most of the current books on educational reform. Among all the books I have read, Education for Life stands out as that rare pedagogical phenomenon: a book both refreshingly original and wholly workable.Education for Life expands the current definition of schooling; it offers parents, educators, and concerned citizens everywhere techniques for transforming education into an integral process'one which harmonizes book learning with direct life experience.This book recommends an already tested and proven system of education, one which emphasizes relevancy when teaching the "basics," and instructs children also in the art of living. As Walters states, this book has the further goal of helping people to "...see the whole of life, beyond the years that one spends in school, as education."