More Interesting Than Your Teacher

by Stuart Wright

More Interesting Than Your Teacher is an innovative take on learning. Stuart Wright believes that schools go about learning the wrong way, focusing too much on the details and confusing children. More Interesting Than Your Teacher sets to correct this and tackle those tricky subjects in an accessible bite sized way that will help children (and adults) get their head round the information.

With a wide range of subjects tackled including, science, geography, languages, social history, animals and naming. Why is it colder up at higher altitudes even though you are closer to the sun? And did you know that only 5% of the world surface is habitable? That Jackson Pollack’s painting No. 5 is one of the most expensive paintings ever sold? That one of Peru’s biggest exports is bird poo?

More Interesting Than Your Teacher has the answers to these questions and hundreds of others. With the facts presented in short, easy to understand language and accompanied by fun illustrations, this book can help children of all ages learn vital information without hours of study.

Genres: Nonfiction

192 pages, Paperback

First published November 8, 2011

Reviews

[Amanda Witt]

This book has bite sized information about all sorts of facts, only two-four pages per topic, ranging from science-space to 'a snake's anatomy' and nature, such as thunder-lightning.

[Kristina Moses · Rating 3 out of 5]

It was an interesting little book, however it didn't describe things in enough detail for me to think it was useful for learning new things.

[Kat · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book is as it claims to be: interesting. It is filled with short little lessons about random, every day objects. I think the short articles could be brought into the classroom and used to develop baseline understanding, depth to material, and to enrich some other key texts. However: this provides shallow, albeit quirky information on a variety of topics. As a result, information will only be retained from the pieces that pertain to your interests or subjects you already know extensively about.