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    <body><![CDATA[I received this book at our honeymoon, and years ago I read Jensen's A Language Older Than Words, which I found interesting but not entirely convincing. I suppose that's true in a certain way with Walking on Water, though I liked it much better, on the whole.<br/><br/>The center of this book is Je...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44634863">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[this is a great book.  a quick read, even though it's nonfiction.   i read it in just a few days, which is fast for me.  it helps that it's short.<br/><br/>it makes me excited to become a teacher, and has given me lots of ideas.  and though i'm not a writer, it makes me want to write.<br/><br/>i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9672297">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Jensen's advice on writing is top-quality. First, his perspective makes sense: since most people know how to tell a story - that is, to share what they love, therefore most people know how to write. The main trick is maintaining that liveliness on paper, which brings us to Jensen's first rule of wri...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62518136">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[this fantastic book is about jensen's views in the teaching world.  i wish i had him as a professor.<br/><br/><br/>&quot;the people in my class, including me, do not need to be taught.  we need simply to be encouraged, to be given heartm to be allowed to grow into our own hearts.  We do not need ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38219864">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I was given the book saying it would challenge my thoughts and/or my approach toward teaching. It didn't. I agreed with Jensen's view of standard compulsory education. He did a great job of highlighting some of the key problems in the system of education as we know it today. The only value of Jensen...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65692079">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[There's nothing new here. Jensen's intentions seem honorable enough (though he's rather big-headed about that fact), but he fails to give the reader anything original or very interesting. There's nothing in here that hasn't been said before, and said better, by some one else.]]></body>
    
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