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How to Think Like Shakespeare

Lessons from a Renaissance Education

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How to Think Like Shakespeare

By: Scott Newstok
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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.

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Not really a verbatim on "How To Think Like Shakespeare." More of a lecture on what to be aware of when confronting difficult writing flavored with an excellent shakespeare perspective. Even still, it's an excellent book. This is what young people today have been starving for when they ask, 'What is intelligence anyways?' This question is all over social media platforms.

Amazing modern insights

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Refreshing. Easy to listen to and accessible. Has the humerus and moral tone that gradually make you just trust the author. Great listen.

Looking forward to Newstok’s new book on Montaigne.

Excellent

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Though provoking and inspiring for both educators and parents and whoever is interested in education and literature.

Superfood for thought

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Extremely well-written and concise. Highly recommend to understand what education is and is not.

Outstanding!

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