Homework for Grown-ups: Everything You Learnt at School…and Promptly Forgot

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A nostalgic compendium of essential knowledge that help you show the world that you’re smarter than a ten-year-old in any case!

Have you ever stared blankly at your kids when they’ve asked why the sky is blue? Or clumsily changed the subject when they’ve wanted to know why the wind blows? If you’re done with school, it’s likely you’re also done knowing the difference between an isosceles and equilateral triangle, and you probably leave participles dangling everywhere. Well, not anymore! Thanks to professional know-it-alls Foley and Coates, you’ll now gain back your self-respect and in fact show those kids a thing or two as you tell it to them straight (and not make it up from fragments of facts you kind of needless to say).

Packed with the entire basic facts that have managed to free-fall from our heads over the years, Homework for Grown-ups is the ultimate grammar school refresher course in book form. Actually, there’s even a quiz at the end of each chapter to be sure to’ve been paying attention! Written in the light, engaging style of a favorite teacher and featuring lessons in English, math, history, science, geography, art, and even home economics and recess, this fun and handy guide will will let you stop hemming and hawing and start speaking with a lot more authority—and a little less shame.
E. FOLEY and B. COATES are editors at Vintage who both live in London.

From the Hardcover edition.

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