Learning by Heart: An Unconventional Education

· Penguin Random House Audio · Lu par Tony Wagner
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“A page turner. With candor and clarity, Tony Wagner tells the story of his remarkable life and, in so doing, tells the story of our education system.”
Angela Duckworth, Founder and CEO, Character Lab, and New York Times bestselling author of Grit

One of the world's top experts on education delivers an uplifting memoir on his own personal failures and successes as he sought to become a good learner and teacher.


Tony Wagner is an eminent education specialist: he has taught at every grade level from high school through graduate school; worked at Harvard; done significant work for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; and speaks across the country and all over the world. But before he found his success, Wagner was kicked out of middle school, expelled from high school, and dropped out of two colleges. Learning by Heart is his powerful account of his years as a student and teacher.

After struggling in both roles, he learned to create meaningful learning experiences despite the constraints of conventional schooling--initially for himself and then for his students--based on understanding each student's real interests and strengthening his or her intrinsic motivations. Wagner's story sheds light on critical issues facing parents and educators today, and reminds us that trial and error, resilience, and respect for the individual, are at the very heart of all teaching and learning.

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Tony Wagner is an eminent education specialist: he has taught at every grade level from high school through graduate school; worked at Harvard; done significant work for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; and speaks across the country and all over the world. Previously, he held a variety of positions at Harvard University over the course of more than twenty years, including four years as an Expert in Residence at the Harvard Innovation Lab and the founder and codirector, for a decade, of the Change Leadership Group at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He also spent time as a high school teacher, K–8 principal, university professor in teacher education, was the founding executive director of Educators for Social Responsibility, and is the author of Creating Innovators and The Global Achievement Gap and coauthor of Most Likely to Succeed.

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