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Simply Put
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Simply Put

by Ben Guttmann
October 2023
Intermediate to advanced
208 pages
3h 53m
English
Berrett-Koehler Publishers
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Salient: Constraints Breed Creativity

I have made this longer than usual because

I have not had time to make it shorter.

—Blaise Pascal

Dick said, ‘Look, look. Look up. Look up, up, up.’ Jane said, ‘Run, run. Run, Dick, run. Run and see.’”

For millions of students in the middle of the twentieth century, the tales of siblings Dick and Jane were the definitive early reader book. At one point, 85 percent of American elementary schools used them in their curriculum.1

But everybody hated them. In Life magazine, they were critiqued as “insipid illustrations depicting the slicked-up lives of other children…. All feature abnormally courteous, unnaturally ...

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Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9781523004706