Show-and-Tell was the very best part of school for me, both as a student and as a teacher

As a kid, put more into getting ready for my turn to present than I put into the rest of my homework. Show-and-Tell was real in a way that much of what I learned in school was not. It was education that came out of my life experience

As a teacher, I was always surprised by what I learned from these amateur hours. A kid I was sure I knew well would reach down into a paper bag he carried and fish out some odd-shaped treasure and attach meaning to it beyond my most extravagant expectation

Again and again, I learned that what I thought only cared about by me...was common property. The principles guiding this book are not fan from the spirit of Show-and-Tell. It is stuff from home-that place in my mind and heart where I most truly live.