"The Call to Brilliance," A woman's midlife experiences in home schooling

While arguably a book written for parents deciding whether or not to homeschool their children, or perhaps educators looking for insight into how to improve educational methods, "The Call to Brilliance" is also a personal story and shows what just one person can accomplish when they follow their instincts even against such an ingrained institution as our educational system.

Author Resa Steindel Brown has been involved in alternative education since 1970 and homeschooling since 1987 and has been interviewed on all of the major networks, newspapers and news magazines.

The basic thrust of her philosophy is that all children are born brilliant and the key to education is to redirect children's challenges into strengths, discover their interests, fuel these interests into passions, and those passions back into brilliance. While the book is about homeschooling children, this sounds like a recipe for excellence in developing a second career in adulthood.