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  • Lessons from a Renaissance Education
  • Written by: Scott Newstok
  • Narrated by: Gabriel Vaughan
  • Length: 4 hrs and 50 mins
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Written by: Scott Newstok
Narrated by: Gabriel Vaughan
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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 offers an enlightening and entertaining guide to the craft of thought - one that demonstrates what we've lost in education today and how we might begin to recover it. In 14 brief, lively chapters that draw from Shakespeare's world and works, and from other writers past and present, Scott Newstok distills vital habits of mind that can help you think more deeply, write more effectively, and learn more joyfully, in school or beyond.

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.

©2020 Princeton University Press (P)2020 Tantor

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Shakespeare the Paragon

The human insights and the humane glories of Shakespeare’s works and way of thinking are sharply reflected in this delightful book. High praise indeed

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