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1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
As if the title and cover didn't reel you in enuogh May 30, 2008
Are you ready to finally challenge yourself to read something? Are you tired of whispering to yourself "Wow, I could be doing something more productive with my life than reading this filth like measuring blades of grass." If there is a little bit of truth in either of those statements, this hundred or so page book will be the end of it!
Prepare to have to engage your brain, prepare to try to read a book again. Remember when you had problems reading books when you were learning how? Well, its time to learn how to read again.
2 of 2 found the following review helpful:
An Intriguing Look At ADHD Apr 17, 2008
This book is an incredible opportunity to step into the reality of the ADHD mind. Following the poetic twists and turns of the writers thoughts, the reader begins to understand why sit still and listen are are so often impossible objectives for any student. Valdes invites the reader to engage all of their senses as they have an exploration of what is means to be ADHD. He even goes so far as to demonstrate that success and happiness can be obtained sans the use of pharmaceuticals. I would dare to suggest that 'The Drive Of Progress In Man' should be required reading for anyone who is entrusted to the minds of our future.
2 of 2 found the following review helpful:
Interesting language, Unique perspective Apr 16, 2008
I wrote this book, and here is how it looks a few months out... The story language is in gradual continuous transition, a writer hot on the tail of something fast and agile. We are curious, sitting on a grassy hill and spot motion below. One, two, three, run! Down into the wooded swamp and don't stop till you catch it. Up the other side covered in mud, across a lake and straight into town. How will this thing move in the open, alienated from the wild thicket from which it sprang? Well, once the ideas were chased from my brain, into social reality as words, the mud gradually dried and sluffed off. It seemed to be a clean misunderstanding between common worldview and dirty neurological reality. We need dirt to hold up our houses and roads! Creativity seems to be a natural reaction to dissatisfaction and suffering, and some people have a lower threshold of dissatisfaction than others. Depending on circumstances, some more dissatisfied personalities are driven to do something about it, and we have them to thank for some of our more amazing advancements. We are getting better at drugging young people out of consistent dissatisfaction, when they are the ones upon who our future as a very species depends. Yes, amphetamine treatment is great, but the human spirit is greater; May we light the higher way, with fire and flashlights.
3 of 3 found the following review helpful:
Worth reading -- Eye opening Apr 13, 2008
This book was waiting to be written. Everyone can agree that our education system needs an overhaul. Drop out rates in inner cities are around 65%. We silence the most innovative minds in our classrooms with Ritalin and Concerta. It's not just kids that are affected - children grow into the movers and shakers of the world. This book identifies critical problems that exist in our system and drags them to full light. It is these problems that will hinder the progress, and evolution, of man. The solution may seem unrealistic - I myself am a little skeptical - but it is worth the effort to make it a reality.
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