Back to Basics: The Education You Wish You'd Had by Caroline Taggart

Back to Basics: The Education You Wish You'd Had Reviews

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  Randy Daugherty

  In Back to Basics The Education you wished you had, Caroline Taggart takes us back for a refresher course in things we learned or should have learned in school.
  She tries to cover all the basics and lend to them a relevance in our everyday life. It is a quick and short read but does well at covering English, Math, History, and Science. As well she gives highlights of Music and others of the so called arts.
  
  This is a quick refresher and reference guide just to shake your memory or to give aid when the kids run up with how do you do this or do you know?
  
  Caroline has written others along this line and I hope to check them out as well.
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  Sohail

  Although this book is far from good, I'd surely recommend it to some people. Not all of the things written in it are useful, but some are essential to know, and for the people who don't know them, this book is a must read.
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  Rhonda Hypolite

  Lovely book
  
  I was curious about the kind of things it would contain. It has refreshed my memory of some of the things I learnt back when I was in school. It has also given me a smattering of some topics in a way that was brief ,clear, and concise.
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  Anshuman

  Simple and straight forward and even funny in certain sections.
  I would remember Caroline if she would have been a teacher of mine and that is compliment enough.
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  Ellie

  Not very helpful - much more basic than expected.
  
  Also, the history chapter, and in fact the whole book, was extremely anglocentric.
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  Keisha Adams

  A nice refresher on some of the stuff I slept through in school. The history section was unfortunately just as I remember- a list of boring disconnected facts and very Eurocentric-A fact about how Zulu Warrior slaughtered a group of British soldiers but no mention of the deaths 10x that on their side was mentioned.
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  Kristina

  A nice quick refresher of a variety of subjects.
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  Hugh Dunnett

  Nice idea and interesting enough in parts, but not specific enough in any area to be of any great value, and so general as to be of little use...