The Happy Child: Changing the Heart of Education
"A clarion call for our culture to re-think what education—and the soul of a child—are really all about" --Jane M. Healy, Ph.D., educational psychologist, author ofFailure to Connect: How Computers Affect Our Children's Minds"Such a nobly simple idea, that the true purpose of education should be happiness, and so clearly reasoned." --Chris Mercogliano, author ofMaking It Up As We Go AlongThis is a splendid book, offering fresh, new insights into a subject exhausted by truisms, pap, and let's pretend. Harrison's hard-biting social critique of the plight that children and education are in should wake us up to our atrocious treatment of our young, that we might actually address their critical needs rather than simply ignoring them as usual. --Joseph Chilton Pearce, author of Crack in the Cosmic Egg, Magical Child, Evolution's End, The Biology of Transcendence, and othersI like this book. I marked several pages to return to and mull over. Harrison's model is radically different from our modern-day lives in general, but much of what he says will ring true for individual homeschooling families. I hope he writes another book where he can spend more time on the solutions now that he has defined the problems with our modern educational model so well. --Home Education MagazineAddressing concepts of reality, the power of thought, and the dilemma of severance from godhead, this is a book that will make you think, even as its author challenges you to give up that troublesome habit, With a fiercely honest, tell-it-like-it-is style, Harrison challenges the individual to evolve beyond circumscribed forms of relating to that spontaneous place wherein life-and love-burst forth.                           --NAPRA ReviewThis small, elegant book is easy to read--should you be in the throes of love's madness, as it were, you still can concentrate on this book! Harrison's prose has a lovely, Zen-like simplicity that supports his powerful message. He offers specific ways to "throw it all out" and start over with your authentic self, tranquil in the calm center of it all, finally at ease with all the paradoxes and contradictions of your all-too-human existence. Give it up. All of it. And all of it will be yours.                                                  --New Age Retailer