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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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | English |
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Lanham :
Rowman & Littlefield,
[2017]
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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.