Self-Directed Education

About the Book

"No Child Left Behind!" is the Bush administration's mantra, which is false and misleading! The policy puts the responsibility for learning on the teachers and the schools.

In contrast, my book puts the responsibility for learning on the learner! Teachers and schools only facilitate learning! A learner-directed education would obliterate illiteracy!

The author became literate by following the lessons taught to him by his dream.

In his dream, his subconscious mind told him he could teach himself literacy by combining letters into syllables, which became words, which became sentences, which became paragraphs, which became interesting stories.

He decided to undertake his own literacy as the dream had indicated. Through hard work and persistence, he became literate in several languages, including Greek, Latin, Hebrew and English.

This book is a clear proof of the success of his self-directed education.

About the Author

Sal Kapunan is a philosopher, educator, artist, writer and real estate investor. He has a Ph.D. in philosophy and a doctorate in education.

In the past six years, he has written six books: My Taoist Vision of Art (1999), Surviving WWII as a Child Swamp Hermit (2000), Every One Is An Artist: Making Yourself the Artwork (2002), The Child Daredevil Hero (2004), The Fortune Cookies of Real Estate (2006), Self-directed Education (2007). Five of his books received ?Book of the Year? award.

Kapunan is a ?snowbird? who, with his wife, Ruthe, flies to Florida in winter and flies back to the Appalachian mountain in summer.

They have three children and two grandchildren.