Here's quick the back story:
There was once a guy that crushed the world of education with his early learning strategies and insights. This particular guy devoted his life to early education and he was extremely well versed. His methods consistently produced early talkers and high IQs as though it were a game of go-fish, and unlike Doman's institute, this guy was an academic (MA from Harvard, PhD from Chicago, Yale professor) with copious citations on his dissertation volumes. He literally wrote a text book on early education. His name was William Fowler.
This last spring, I wanted to learn what his secrets were. His valedictory "how to" book entitled
Talking From Infancy could only be purchased out of print and the prices people wanted for it was atrocious. I've bought and sold books enough to know that if I went ahead and bought the book, I'd take a complete bath on it. I spent $180 to get the book and corresponding VHS tape. It was worth it though to gain the knowledge to help my newborn son.
Well, not surprisingly, I've taken the bath on this. Shortly after trying to sell the set, another person came along and started a price war. I personally took the prevailing price from $120 down to where it is now (around a $35 on average on Amazon). Even with that, there's no market for this out of print stuff and very few have heard of his work.
But I'm about to change that.
I want his secrets to get out to those of us in the Early Learning Community. I have my reasons. Perhaps you can encourage me to continue the efforts with this. Perhaps you'll come up with some awesome ideas. Perhaps you'll inspire others. Perhaps my donation will help a child's life path....
Plus, with Cub's recent success (see below), I'm in a great mood...
So here's how this will work. I have ONE original
Talking from Infancy by Dr. William Fowler that I will send to some lucky BK member. If you don't have a BK membership (free) and you just lurk, I recommend signing up. There might be some countries that won't be eligible (such as Afghanistan) but by enlarge, you're more than likely eligible (where the USA is willing to ship something to).
I will make a list of eligible contestants and will choose the winner by random selection (using the random function on my calculator and comparing to the numbered list to determine the winner). I'll run this through Tuesday November 13th. I'll announce the winner in this thread on Wed the 14th at some point.
To be eligible, please do two things
1. Check out my PokerCub update (you should do this anyway!!!!)http://www.pokercub.blogspot.com/2012/11/swimming-update.html2. Leave me a comment on the blog - if this troubles you, I'll allow comments in this thread to countI will be including something special with the book that I cannot mention here. Just know it will be worth your effort.
Your comment can be derisory if you like - or it can be encouraging, or it can spark a discussion if you like. Whatever suits your fancy!
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