No comments about Marguerite Yourcenar: Que aburrido hubiera sido ser feliz/ How boring it would've been to be happy (Testimonios).

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No comments about The Life Of W. J. Fox, Public Teacher And Social Reformer 1786-1864.

2 comments about Yo! Joey!.

1. A must read for anyone interested in public education. Joe Batory gives the reader an insiders look about what really happens in the day-to-day life of a superintendent. Joe's love and concern for children comes alive in this book. As a member of the Upper Darby School Board who served with Joe, it is a pleasure to recommend this book. This outspoken educator took on all critics of public education to advance the cause of public education.



2. A must read for anyone interested in public education. Joe Batory gives the reader an insiders look about what really happens in the day-to-day life of a superintendent. Joe's love and concern for children comes alive in this book. As a member of the Upper Darby School Board who served with Joe, it is a pleasure to recommend this book. This outspoken educator took on all critics of public education to advance the cause of public education.

2 comments about A Professor's Unforgettables.

1. Dr. Bond of Rebeccasreads highly recommends A PROFESSOR'S UNFORGETTABLES as a worthy offering from this Grandma Moses of Literature.
   
   Beginning her career as a published writer late in life (she is now 87), she has taken her long service as a teacher of humanities & transformed it into a delightful book of short stories that no one who has ever loved a teacher should miss. The tales are moving, insightful into human nature, & full of the wisdom that only age combined with sensibility can bring.
   
   A PROFESSOR'S UNFORGETTABLES, while in need of a copy editor, is highly recommended for all who like a "good read" & the many people who, as children, dearly loved their teachers.
   
   Do check out this author's other books: A NUDE SINGULARITY: Lily Peter of Arkansas, a biography & BILLY FREEMAN, Florida Keys Sheriff.



2. "A Professor's Unforgettables: 5 out Of 10,000 Students in 25 Years" is an enticing collection of sketches by University of Arkansas Professor AnnieLaura Jagger of her humanities students -- the more memorable ones, of course. With deadpan humour, straight ahead jabs to the reader, and intimate little double -takes, "A Professor's Unforgettables" reads as smooth as corn silk. The humourous illustrations by Joe Gray adjust the right touch. One wonders if he was perhaps another unforgettable student to be sketched later on. The five students selected are not quite the academic angels one might expect of a professor's memoirs. They are in fact far more colorfully human than obviously brilliant. At least one of them qualifies as a celebrity; Barbara, the future wife of Norman Mailer. Perhaps one thing each student has done to become memorable is to challenge her, both as a teacher and as a full human being. She rises to each challenge in unusual and unforgettable ways. From the former military man who resented being taught by a woman to the charming French-Canadian student who relies on Professor Jaggers to save his life and preserve his romantic outlook (the last, alas, doomed to disappointment), these are fully dimensional sketches of students who left an impression on this unusual humanities professor. The writer never takes herself too seriously, though she clearly retains her own set of values and frame of reference. "A Professor's Unforgettables" is a most entertaining read, and one that may restore some prestige to the concept of higher education and the liberal arts.

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No comments about Daniel Webster: A Bibliography (Bibliographies of American Notables).

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No comments about Biographical Dictionary of North American and European Educationists (Woburn Education Series).