"The Student's Master Plan" should be in every student's bag, on every teacher's desk and on every parent's nightstand. An honest, comprehensive and pertinent compilation of gems and guidelines that every student - young or old - can relate to. Kamau Mahakoe has homeschooled her four children for nearly two decades and has been a private tutor to other students for over a decade. During this time, she has observed, listened, guided and been guided by the habits and antics of her beloved charges. Inspired by the words of a man who stressed the importance of education all his life, Marcus Garvey, kamau keeps insisting throughout that "all life must be a useful plan. Not just any plan. A useful plan. The essays were written by Kamau over the years as presentations that she read to her students each morning during their fifteen-minute motivational sessions. As Kamau says, "We are all students of life and will be students for life." We all could use some motivation. here it is