21 Oct Praise for The Overweight Brain
I’m so grateful for readers’ responses to The Overweight Brain: How our obsession with knowing keeps us from getting smart enough to make a better world!
“This book may disorient you – be stirred, not shaken! Lois’s book is about knowledge and knowing, and what is wrong with them. She lays down a theoretical framework that illuminates what I too have observed in my experimental work over several decades. She examines what ‘I know’ or ‘I don’t know’ mean in the environment of our times. This may worry you, the reader, and perhaps it should. Our civilisation is based on knowledge. But does it have to continue that way? Does growth necessarily need knowledge in a time where ‘knowing’ is increasingly obsolete? “
Sugata Mitra, Ph.D. Professor Emeritus of Educational Technology, Newcastle University; founder, School in the Cloud global community; author, The School in the Cloud: The Emerging Future of Learning
“What it will take to make a better world? Lois Holzman has written a stunning book that calls us to move beyond our inherited ways of thinking, being, and acting, with an ultimate call to align our educational and other systems with the process-oriented ways that human beings actually come to know and grow. Filled with a lifetime of thoughts and tangible practices for overcoming so many problems that humanity faces, and blending together the insights of figures from Wittgenstein to Vygotsky, The Overweight Brain should be on the shelf of anyone interested in the big picture of what it will take to create better social worlds.”
Don Waisanen, Ph.D. Assoc. Professor, Baruch College, School of Public & International Affairs
“Bloody brilliant!”
Irshad Manji, NY Times bestselling author, Don’t Label Me! An Incredible Conversation for Divided Times; recipient of Oprah Winfrey’s Chutzpah Award; founder, Moral Courage Academy
“When educators shift our focus from ‘knowing’ to ‘growing,’ we help young people be all they can be. Schools are obsessed with knowing…But there’s an important shift underway. In her bold and accessible book, Holzman offers an approach to education in which ‘knowing’ is part of something much bigger — part of the human capacity to grow and evolve.”
David J. Chard, Ph.D. Dean, Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development
“A masterpiece of practical philosophy…Holzman offers the most riveting and sophisticated attack on epistemology in this extraordinarily accessible book. It is a masterpiece of practical philosophy to savor and play with in our moment-to-moment lives and now required reading for all our incoming students.”
Omar H. Ali, Ph.D. Dean, Lloyd International Honors College, UNC- University at Greensboro, and Carnegie Foundation North Carolina Professor of the Year
“A creative approach to emotional pain…As a life performance coach and community organizer, I especially recommend Chapter 8, “We Can’t Know, but We Can Grow.” You’ll be thrilled with how much more you’ll be able to offer your clients, family and friends as we all navigate the challenges of living and loving in chaotic and uncertain times.”
Joyce Dattner, Director and Founder, Life Performance Coaching Center
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