The Cardboard Classroom: A Novel About Growing Up, One Card at a Time - Softcover

Brophy Ph.D., John R

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798246161654

Verlag: Independently published, 2026

Inhaltsangabe

What if some of life's most important lessons aren’t learned in classrooms at all?
Most of us remember the first thing we ever collected. Baseball cards. Pokémon. Comics. Coins. Something small that somehow became everything.
But what we didn’t realize at the time is this:
While we thought we were collecting things, we were actually learning.
In The Cardboard Classroom, leader, learner, educator, and lifelong collector Dr. John R. Brophy reveals a powerful truth: some of the deepest learning in life happens not through assignments and tests—but through hobbies, passions, and pursuits we choose for ourselves.
Using the world of collecting as a lens, this book explores how children (and adults) naturally learn:

• How to read, analyze, and make sense of information
• How to think in numbers, probabilities, and trade-offs
• How to plan, wait, persist, and recover from mistakes
• How to negotiate, build judgment, and understand value
• How patience, discipline, resilience, and ethics are formed
• How identity, confidence, and competence are built quietly over time

All without ever calling it “school.”

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Independently published
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2026
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 13: 9798246161654
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 141
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Printed by Amazon on behalf of the author; https://www.amazon.de/hz/contact-us; ; c/o Amazon Media EU S.à.r.l., 38 Avenue John F. Kennedy; Luxembourg; L-1855; Luxemburg