Visual Thinking provides new insights for parents whose children might be outside the typical education for verbal and math thinkers. Policymakers might take note as well if only to realize the focus on verbal/math skills is vital to the economic well-being of the American economy. However, ignoring the geniuses that arrive on the scene whose skills are visual is a cardinal sin. Artists like my daughter are easy to identify; musicians, too. Others, not so much. They are builders of ideas visualized and in need of a different toolkit. Inventors like Da Vinci, Tesla, Edison, Jobs, and Gates did not have the verbal expertise of a typical college graduate. Still, they had the visual talents to build an idea from nothing. So, too, do artists, welders, draftsmen and women, tinkers, inventors, and entrepreneurs. Einstein, a genius by any measure, did not think in words but visualized the world in ways that Newton’s equations did not. Grandin fills her work with innumerable examples of visual thinkers. This caste of woebegones are often marginalized in schools, but later find their creative legs in life because of dogged persistence. For readers that sometimes feel they have not succeeded in the neurotypical world or SATs and A’s, you may, like me, find yourself in this book. For parents and educators, it’s important to understand that the continued job of improving education in the typical verbal/math outcomes is very important. It is, however, just as important to identify potential visual thinkers and find illuminating paths for their visual thinking. Great book. You’ll be glad you choose it. -- Library Staff Review (Tom L.)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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