School Can Wait

by Raymond Moore, Dorothy Moore

School Can Wait

Genres: Education, Parenting, Nonfiction

Paperback

First published January 1, 1979

About the author

Raymond Moore is a retired professor who currently lives in the Philippines with his family. Aside from his academic career, Moore is also a playwright, poet, and song writer. He has adapted Joseph Conrad’s novel, Under Western Eyes, into the full-length stage play JIHAD (currently available on Kindle), and he has written a short play (unpublished), Grandman and Baby Boo. Moreover, Moore is a singer-songwriter (under the pseudonym Ray Houston), and he has written a book of poetry titled My Window, which (along with Grandman and Baby Boo) he plans to publish on Amazon in the near future. Finally, Raymond Moore plans to publish audio books of all his creative works (as well as classic short books in the public domain that have yet to be published as an audio book).

Reviews

[David · Rating 4 out of 5]

Premis: With a positive nurturing home environment children should not start school until they're 8-10 years old. This is a slow read as every paragraph has something to ponder, and there are 756 journal articles referenced, which makes you want to look them up. It would be nice to have a Kindle edition with all the journal articles incorporated into the reference section. I'd also like to see how this book stands up to more recent research as it was published almost 40 years ago.

[Alicia · Rating 4 out of 5]

Considering my 7yo, I can see how waiting to start school would have benefitted him. This book (which does not have the "II" as in the photo) uses a ton of studies but is now 45 years old. I wonder what updated research says about this topic.

[flourgirl · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good idea. Skipped through a lot of it.

[Trulee · Rating 5 out of 5]

There is a lot of research here, and it can be a bit dry. But once I got to chapter 12 it really picked up and was worth it.

[Audrey · Rating 4 out of 5]

Phenomenal advice when I needed it. Raymond and Dorothy Moore's philosophy and research was the beginning of my children's education.