In the fall of 1952, my mom carefully dressed me in my yellow raingear, kissed me on the cheek, and sent me down the long road that would take me to Larrabee Elementary School. There, far from Mother’s focused tutelage, my first year of grade school unfolded at a pace that was so unbearably slow, I feared I would burst into flames out of utter frustration. At home, things moved along nicely. At school, we spent three days studying the letter A. It was if the very fabric of time had been altered.

Crucial Learning would not be the organization it is today without the pathbreaking work of Dr. Albert Bandura, one of the most cited and influential psychologists of this era. He loved and admired our organization and was the guiding mentor for all our work.

Dr. Bandura died in 2021 at the age of 95, just before publishing the book that would encapsulate his life’s work. That book has been posthumously published and is now available at bookstores everywhere.

Social Cognitive Theory: An Agentic Perspective on Human Nature highlights the science of human agency—our power to determine our destinies. It reveals how all of Bandura’s work was driven by a desire to understand and promote our capacity to influence our lives and the world for good.

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