The Good Neighbor: The Life and Work of Fred Rogers

Professor R. M. Rabinowski Department of Psychology Fortuna College, Fortuna, California Dear Professor Rabinowski, Your book changed my life. He tells a full-fledged conversion narrative: wayward boy saved by a chance encounter with brilliance. He describes how The Ape Inside Us awakened something in him, although the awakening has come, perhaps,

Beethoven made music that sounded like everyone else’s until he used experiments to gradually differentiate his style from Mozart’s established brand of composition. The creative process he adopted, driven by hundreds of

In the middle of the last century, Lewis marched into the line of fire to summon a nation to be what it had long said it would be but had failed to become. Arrested forty-five times over the course of his life, Lewis suffered a fractured skull and was repeatedly beaten and tear-gassed. He led by example more than by words. He was a peaceful soldier

Above all, Leonardo’s relentless curiosity and experimentation should remind us of the importance of instilling, in both ourselves and our children, not just received knowledge but a willingness to question it—to be imaginative and, like talented misfits and rebels in any era, to think different