The Call to Brilliance: A True Story to Inspire Parents and Educators--

by Resa Steindel Brown and William Glasser

Book Overview

In an engaging memoir, award-winning educator, Resa Steindel Brown is drawn to the astonishing discovery that all children are born brilliant. With insightful commentary, she recalls her own trials as... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0977836908
• ISBN13: 9780977836901
• Release Date: January 2007
• Publisher: Fredric Press
• Length: 311 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Thinking outside the schoolhouse

For too long in our schools, "different" has been another word for "wrong." Yet, as we learned in school, some of the world's greatest thinkers and artists were different--didn't "succeed" in traditional schools and often were kicked out or dropped out. As Resa beautifully explains, the problem is not that children are being 'left behind.' The problem is a reluctance to leave behind an educational system that often crushes passion and medicates creativity. This book calls us as parents to reawaken our own brilliance, reminds us how to see brilliance in our children, and shows us how to keep that brilliant light shining and expanding. You will see yourself, your school, and your child differently after reading it.

Take this Brilliant Call as a Parent or Educator

I so hope this mother and educator's inspirational book finds its way into mainstream America. Although not all parents could and would choose the dedicated method these parents have chosen for their three miraculous children, any parent or teacher could model key elements to encourage passion and organic intelligence in the children they touch. Facing retirement from teaching, I now look forward to nurturing the lives of my grandnephew and nieces. Two are home schooled because of their commitment to gymnastics; the two younger ones are heading into finding their individual bliss. Both sets of parents are loving, aware, and conscious, so I have faith that these precious little ones can be directed to find their own paths. To help encourage their full potential, I will be gently echoing the principles layered in this transformational labor of love. Barbara Outland Baker, McKinney, Texas

public school illusion uncovered

Finally, a book has come along in the mainstream press that blows the lid off the grand illusion of our industrialized model of the public school education system. As a parent and trained educator I want to give my children a modicom of hope for their educational future. Resa's book infused me with a breath of fresh intellectual air and gave me support to follow the lead of my children's inherent brilliance. I recommend this book to anyone who has the wherewithall to dig deeper past the ease of comforming to the cookie-cutter approach to standardized education. It's far past time to offer children the freedom to learn what uniquely inspires them and to experience their education as joy, not incarceration. Bravo Resa!

A Mother's Perspective

I found the extent to which I could relate to this inspirational book amazing. It was so close to home that I wept throughout the book. It is an American Tragedy that all of our children must be educated according to an agenda - one-size fits all. Our educational system does not allow for a nuturing environment. Today each childs individualism is labeled as a disorder. My child's early report cards reinforced his failures and his self esteem suffered. By following the principles underscored in The Call To Brilliance my son began to excel. This "F" student will enter college on a full scholarship in the fall. The parent of every labeled child should have a Resa in their life.

Parents need to read this book

Resa Steindel Brown's "The Call to Brilliance" is a rare life-changing work. As much a personal story about an amazing family as it is philosophical treatise about modern education, this book reveals what has gone so wrong in our schools and takes you on a journey that reveals how to uncover the light of brilliance that is inside our children. A practitioner and advocate of homeschooling, Brown points out that public schools were designed for an industrial society to produce conforming drones who don't mind endless tedium. She suggests that an entirely new model is needed in order to unleash children's native creativity and curiosity and help them become truly functioning adults. For parents, this is a must read. -- Tad Cronn [...]