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This is a great book! It will change your life and those around you by giving you valuable insights you can use in your own life as well as share with family, friends, and colleagues when faced with educational choices.
The authors are two of the world’s leading thinkers on innovation and education. Bob Moesta has spent his life developing tools to drive real innovation by digging beneath the surface to truly understand why people make the decisions they do. He shares valuable insights from his lifetime of learning about the process of innovation in this book so that we the readers can make better decisions in our own lives when it comes to our education or the educational choices of those around us. Michael Horn has spent decades researching, thinking, and driving innovation in education across the globe and he brings a deep understanding of the past, present, and future of education to this book. Whether you are a prospective student, parent, educator, administrator, or even the president of a university, reading this book will have you nodding your head in amazement and agreement. They got it! Moesta and Horn put in the time, did the research, and delivered a book worth reading with ideas that can help all of us make better education decisions.
With the cost of higher education at an all-time high (an average grad has $29,800 in student loans), this book will be an incredibly timely source of clarity to readers as they think through the difficult choices they must make about their education and careers.
If you are a prospective student, then reading this book could help you avoid one of the costliest mistakes of your life. A college degree is expensive and if you pursue the wrong degree for the wrong reason it may not be worth your time and money. Read this book so you can ask the right questions and learn WHY you need more education and what type of education will be best for you based on your own WHY.
If you are a parent, then reading this book may change everything you think you know about what type of college education your child needs and what your role as a parent is in helping them make the right decisions about their education. As a parent read this book with an open mind and be humble enough to recognize the mistakes you are making already in how you talk about education choices with your child. What you learn in this book could be the difference between your child taking the right path in life and having a fulfilling and successful educational experience and subsequent career versus expensive mistakes that could set your child behind in ways they may never recover from.
If you are a teacher, guidance counselor, or school administrator at the K-12 or College level, then this book will be an invaluable resource to help you give better advice and guidance to the students in your care. The simplicity and clarity of this book may feel shocking to you as an experienced educator. You may even be offended or angry at times because the insights from this book stand in bold opposition to the traditional advice we have given students about educational choices for many generations, but don’t let this stop you. Read this book! It will help you better help your students understand the choices they have and WHY they are making the choice they are making. You could change the entire trajectory of a student’s life by helping a student and their parent ask the right questions about what educational options are truly best for them.
I’m grateful Moesta and Horn took the time to write this incredible book. This book has changed the way I look at educational choices in my own life. This book has also changed the way I look at the educational choices my three young children will make throughout their lives. This book can do the same for you and those you care about in your life as well.
Choosing College is definitely one of those really good books that is worth your time to read!
