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Einstein Never Used Flash Cards: How Our Children Really Learn--and why They Need to Play More and Memorize Less  
Author: Kathy Hirsh-Pasek
ISBN: 1594860688
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From Publishers Weekly
Authors and child psychologists Hirsh-Pasek, Golinkoff and Eyer join together to prove that training preschoolers with flash cards and attempting to hurry intellectual development doesn't pay off. In fact, the authors claim, kids who are pressured early on to join the academic rat race don't fair any better than children who are allowed to take their time. Alarmed by the current...