Podcast
The Daily Stoic
Maya Smart discussed the creation of her book, which took about 10 years to complete. The book focuses on ways to instill a love of reading in children, and she shared insights into her writing process and the challenges of making complex ideas accessible to readers.
It is extraordinarily exciting to finally see this project done. It was many, as you know, many years in the making.
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Episode: Maya Smart on Transforming Education and the Power...
Maya Smart discussed the creation of her book, which took about 10 years to complete. The book focuses on ways to instill a love of reading in children, and she shared insights into her writing process and the challenges of making complex ideas accessible to readers.
It is extraordinarily exciting to finally see this project done. It was many, as you know, many years in the making.
I knew when she was a toddler, I read a number of news reports about vast disparities in reading achievement among black students and white students, lower socioeconomic students and higher socioeconomic students. And it really just bothered me.
a book is not a string of articles it's its own entity, its own dynamics
In making a clear statement of what I believe on a subject as a journalist there can be a lot of well some people say this and some people say this and they're a mere so this argument and merits to that argument and this sort of attempt at being objective so in a lot of these points I had to really go round and round with myself to say well what do you think my your name is on the cover of this book
an amazing book for perhaps the most important job parents have, getting our kids to love to read