Each day : a veteran educator's guide to raising children /

In vibrant prose, Z. Vance Wilson offers insight to anyone, whether parent or teacher, responsible for guiding children on the joyous, difficult, and ever-unpredictable path to becoming their best selves intellectually, socially, morally, and spiritually. With judiciousness, good will, and humor (al...

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Main Author: Wilson, Zebulon Vance (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2017]
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Online Access: Full text (MFA users only)
ISBN:9781475827774
1475827776
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • A humane intelligence
  • Anonymous heroism
  • Toughness
  • Band of brothers
  • Eighth grade
  • A boy's voice
  • The hours
  • The quality of being there
  • Too much of a good thing
  • Let the rumpus begin
  • On specialization
  • An eternal present
  • A prophet in his own homeland
  • A rough coming
  • Silence
  • Rhythm: keeping the difficult balance
  • Mark each day
  • The road to Emmaus: a language of God
  • Faith, vocation, and work
  • For God and for the state
  • I will sing unto the Lord
  • The philosopher's stone
  • Good time, inhuman time
  • Chancing the arm
  • And miles to go
  • Our man Micah
  • The prodigal son
  • Anna and the sniper
  • Philip
  • Harvard or heaven?
  • What wakes you up in the middle of the night
  • What benefits our labors
  • An authoritative community
  • Silas Marner and me
  • Parade out the gargoyles
  • Scaffolding and learning
  • The freedom to choose one's way
  • Let the children come
  • The eagle and the selfies
  • My students, now
  • What we desire.