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Reviewed by Marie-Hélène Fasquel for Readers' Favorite
Life Curriculum: What You Learn and Practice Makes You Who You Are by Charles Paul Collins is a comprehensive and eye-opening book about life. The author focuses on life as a craft. This is something I find absolutely fascinating as a mother, as a teacher, and as a “master” (as I am in the 45-65 years old bracket). The author structures his reflections around nine parts, including family and personal heritage, family and household management, family and personal finance, the human being, and tools for living. Each chapter is developed with remarkable clarity. Through teaching, exercises, and reflection tools (such as the “5 whys” and “process mapping”), the author offers a path toward self-improvement, and that is what I enjoyed the most.
Life Curriculum by Charles Paul Collins is similar to a dictionary or an encyclopedia, as it includes so many fields. It can be read as it is, from the first to the last chapter. But readers can also refer to chapters according to their needs. I definitely will come back to different sections of it as needed. I am also appreciative of the summary of each of the five parts. They are so useful when you run out of time and make everything even clearer. This book is unique, and I have read a lot of self-development books for my family and for my students. I will highly recommend it to some of my students who will be interested in such guidance. It can be read from age fifteen on. Thank you, Charles Paul Collins, for such a gem of a book!