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Description.
"The Lifelong Learner Series" is a five-book series for the Saturday scholar, the academic novice who too often thinks they aren't smart enough, or who wishes they had just a bit more clarity on how to be a better learner, thinker, speaker, writer, or debater. This series presents a wealth of teaching experience and academic insight stated in everyday language, accessible to "everyday people." Here, there is no need for academic credentials or degrees; the price of admission, the payment to play, is only a fire in your belly that longs to be better, that longs to learn. Each chapter is offered with understanding, empathy, and practical wisdom, expecting the reader will bring all their mistakes, insecurities, and intellectual doubts to bear on their journey through each chapter. Book Titles. The Art of Learning: How to Propel and Navigate Your Questions, Curiosity, and Wonder Being a Better Reader, When You Realize You Are Not a Good One Writing Well, and the Various Ways to Improve Your Writing Arguing with Grace: Disagree and Debate without Fear, Anger, or Resentment Effective Speech: The Art and Science of Untying Your Tongue Plain and Simple (from the Series Preface). "I spent many years in education, even talking with parents about the education they wish they received, even speaking with retirees who were, for the first time, taking an interest in learning, and using their free-time to learn, and even wanting to be labeled a “lifelong learner.” That’s how this series began. It was a humble and organic beginning, and so this series, and each chapter therein, has sought to maintain those two attributes. This series was then fueled by all those previous conversations I had, with the “educated” and “uneducated” alike, some which were incredibly chance and yet providential meetings, whom I am sure I will never meet again. “I don’t have an undergraduate degree,” he said. “I don’t feel like I’m all that smart,” she said. “I am not a college professor or something, but I love to learn,” she said. I replied: “Many college professors don’t love to learn anymore. If you are serious about learning, it is probably best you aren’t a college professor these days." Plain and simple, if you love to learn, this series is for you. If you want to be a better reader, writer, thinker, Saturday scholar, then this series is for you. If you want to be a better student of something, even yourself, this series is for you. If you are one of those aching college professors who lost that fire in your belly, and you cannot possibly let your department chair find out you are reading this series, this series is for you, and maybe many of your undergraduate students as well, who have yet to receive the education they should have." |