Learning with YOUR purpose in mind—not your parents', not your teacher's, not your school's.

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Every day, your school, your teachers, and even your peers draw lines to measure and standardize intelligence. They decide what criteria make one person smart and another person stupid. They decide who will succeed and who will just get by. Perhaps you find yourself outside the norm, because you learn differently – but, unlike your classmates, you have no system in place that consistently supports your ability and desire to learn. Simply put, you are considered lazy and stupid. You are expected to fail.

Learning Outside the Lines is written by two such "academic failures"—that is, two academic failures who graduated from Brown University at the top of their class. Jonathan Mooney and David Cole teach you how to take control of your education and find true success—and they offer all the reasons why you should persevere. Witty, bold, and disarmingly honest, Learning Outside the Lines takes you on a journey toward personal empowerment and profound educational change, proving once again that rules sometimes need to be broken.

Reviews by Readers

“I think I'm going to require this for my Ed Psych students. I am a Ph.D. student in School Psychology. I am one of those people who gives those tests that decide the fate of children in school. We aren't all bad. I myself was diagnosed with ADD as a child and have spent much of my life trying to find those tricks and strategies to help myself succeed in a world I don't feel I quite fit into. I think this book is an excellent resource for people with and without disabilities if they want to succeed in school. I teach Educational Psychology to college students and by making this book required reading, my students learn valuable study skills AND they get a chance to hear first-hand accounts of growing up with disabilities. What more could I want? Well done, guys.” —Abra Carroll Nardo, Memphis, TN

“Study skills for the way you learn and much more. Even if you are not one of us different thinkers, you need this book. This book is so much more than a study skills book. It is a guide to taking control of your life as well as YOUR education. The key word here is YOU! We all know the education system sucks for those of us that happen to think outside the box. ‘One size fits all’ education has beaten us down long enough. Cole and Mooney have once again proven that just because some kids have trouble in school doesn't mean they are not smart! They didn't set around and think up ways to improve grades they lived these methods and wrote this book while in school. Let the education Phd.'s think about that for a minute while you get this book and get on with your life! This book is also about helping kids. The proceeds go to Project Eye-to-Eye, a non-profit organization started by the authors to pair LD kids to LD college students as mentors. So do yourself and some at risk kids a favor and BUY this BOOK.” —Dyslexicman ”danwill“, Austin, TX

“Study Smarter, Not Harder. The book, Learning Outside the Lines, was written by two academic misfits who, despite their learning problems, managed to graduate from Brown University at the top of their class. Jonathan Mooney is a student who has dyslexia and did not know how to read until he was twelve years old. David Cole, diagnosed with ADHD, was a high school dropout at the tender age of 15. They demonstrate the ability of students to individualize their education and attain academic success by enhancing academic skills in the following three areas: Individualizing your Education, Taking Notes a Step Further, and Writing, Writing, Writing. This is a bold, honest, easy to understand, and eye-opening reading experience. Learning Outside the Lines, should be required reading for every student planning to go to college. I chose to read Learning Outside the Lines, not only to understand how ‘unusual learners’ a.k.a. ‘educational misfits,’ can adapt to the educational system, but how to empower myself also an ‘unusual learner.’” —Dave J. Ruitenberg, Learning Smarter, Not Harder

“Outside the Box, Outside the Lines. As a parent, 25 years old with a 7 year old son, I was informed that my extremely cute, but extremely active son had ADHD. What the heck is THAT? Denial, defiance, research, acceptance, empowerment and then the long struggle. Three years later he was diagnosed as LBLD (Language Based LD), EFD (Executive Function Disorder), Bipolar, etc., yada yada. What he IS is an extremely intelligent, majorly creative and gifted, funny, loving kid! And that is what we have spent the last 5 years pounding into a school system so interred in its history that it is afraid to face the present and the future! He is now 15, a high school freshman, struggling, always struggling, to meet the expectations of the world around us. I think this book is a great way to help him, and thanks to Jonathan for being kind enough to sign a copy of it to him at a recent conference! And one for me too! I loved hearing Jonathan speak, and have never seen the people at one of these conferences give a standing ovation to anyone—yet they did for Jonathan. —Karen Kast-McBride, Boston, MA

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