DRIVEN TO DISTRACTION
Edward M. Hallowell, M.D.

(This is where I first saw a published list of personality characteristics that was very similar to the list we had developed by observation of our outstandingly successful Project Lab students).

ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER:
A DIFFERENT PERCEPTION
Thom Hartman

(This book beautifully describes hunters and farmers and builds an excellent case as to how they got that way. The author has written several other books on this subject that are also well worth reading).

DUMBING US DOWN
John Taylor Gatto

(Mr. Gatto clearly illuminates the mysterious ghosts that we were in mortal combat with for the minds of our young students. The ghosts turned out to be artifacts of conventional school education that were invisible to our adults and our youths but were like giant pot-holes in our highway to success in Project Lab. Every citizen in the United States should read at least the first twenty one pages of this mind opening book).

HOW CHILDREN FAIL
John Holt

(This book has more solid and usable insight into how children learn and what gets in the way of that process than any other source that I have yet discovered. It literally took us over five years of trial and error tinkering with the Project Lab format to develop the insight that Mr. Holt provides with only a few hours of reading. The book's first copyright was in 1964, it is still in print and has over a million copies sold. We only discovered the book in May 1997, years after synthesizing almost the same data from practical experience. Mr. Holt's data is far better organized, researched and full of relevance than our own. We have ordered his companion volume HOW CHILDREN LEARN, but have not yet received it. Why, with the thousands of hours of asking questions and talking to hundreds of people about this exact subject, no one mentioned this book is beyond me. In this book he never provides a distinction between hunters and farmers, but reading between the lines, one can sense his puzzling over the gulf between the two different learning styles. Sticking my neck way out, I would suggest that Mr. Holt was a strong hunter working in a farmers environment).