Educators Books

I was a student in Mrs. Love's classes from 1993 until 1995. Reading this book brought back all the crazy memories of high school as well as enlightening me to what was really going on behind the scenes. This book is applicable to more than just people who know or have been taught by Mrs. Love, however. It's a tail that is often repeated in schools across this country and probably others; it's about a teacher's love for her students and passing knowledge onto them while maintaining a sane personal life and allowing herself to grow with her students. It's a book that really shows that life is a journey, not a destination. All of this packed in with Mrs. Love's personal side stories and her own high school antics. I highly recommend this book to anyone who has ever been in high school (i.e. pretty much everyone). Teachers as well, I'm sure will feel an instant affection for this book and the trials and tribulations that all teachers go through.

This summer I spent more than two and a half months in North Idaho, getting to know it. I stumbled on this gem of a book, and what a treat. Having taught young adults myself, I thoroughly enjoyed its silver-tongued, funny, but thoughtful insights into the Teaching life.

My favorite part, in all its humor, insight, and deft touch, is the extended "conversation" between the author and her son, Willie. Not only are the vignettes about her son a riot, but the section generally forces us to think about what happens when the chicken comes home to roost: does the author's teaching skill and compassion apply in her very own home? Thankfully, yes.

Only halfway thru the book did the author's last name fully dawn on me. So the title offers a double entendre - a delayed payoff, crystallizing the themes between her public and private lives, her classroom and home, her as uber-professional and as Mom - in short, her lessons and love.

A fun read!!! Not only about teaching and family, but about life in small-town America, beautiful Sandpoint,Idaho.

E WARREN CLARK was a very young American scientist and missionary
who taught chemistry for the former Tokugawa shoguns and later
at Tokyo University. His 1878 book, LIFE AND ADVENTURE IN JAPAN,
republished here,gives a superb look at life in Japan in the early Meiji era. The editors' introductions put the book into context

E WARREN CLARK was a very young American scientist and missionary
who taught chemistry for the former Tokugawa shoguns and later
at Tokyo University. His 1878 book, LIFE AND ADVENTURE IN JAPAN,
republished heregives a superb look at life in Japan in the early Meiji era. The editors' introductions put the book into context

For years I have looked for a credible book that traced the lineage of human and organizational performance improvement. All others had biases and lapses. This book written by one of the Masters who helped define and develop this field has written the best account of our lineage I have ever seen. It is beautifully written--clear, concise, accurate, and human--and meets (no, exceeds) my expectations.

It is a must for any student (senior or starting) in our field.

Although I selected Dr. Mager from all of the experts in the early 1960's to work with a major management consulting firm to introduce programmed instruction into European countries, and have stayed in touch since then, I learned more about him and his genius as I turned each page of this book. It is essential reading for everyone in the fields of education, training and management.

I read this book quite a few years ago and it remains fresh in my memory. There was nothing about it I did not totally love, especially Emilie. I was sad to see that there was only one other review of this excellent book. Everyone should read it, it is absolutely beautiful.

This is a book about endemic people, who, like plants, are rooted to a certain time and place with a specificity that is hard for a lot of us alive today to know. Emilie's tale of her tough life in the rugged mountains near Italy is told with such a wonderful conversational and error-laden english - completely engaging and romantic, with photos of people in the story she is telling. I read it while at my best friends house in Grenoble, and then we drove to the very town in the alps that Emilie grew up in. It was like a time capsule except for the cross country ski inns that have popped up and started a commercialization process. But the story she tells is of people who are like certain french cheeses made in a certain valley, that if you went over the mountain and into the next valley, that cheese could not be replicated. This is a great story and you will fall in love with it if you are someone who is nostalgic for a time and place when harsh weather, rugged mountains, and lots of work to do at home made a journey of 20 miles felt like it took you to another planet.

Blum has written a fine memoir. It offers insights into Anti-Semitism, and the inner-workings of academia. Writing is graceful and compelling.

The book is beautifully designed and produced by U Kansas Press.

Too bad Yale University Press did not publish this book.

Wonderful insights into the workings of the Eastern academic establishment in the 20th century. Superbly-written - an easy, smooth read. Perhaps of particular interest to this reader, a former student of Mr. Blum's, his book should also have appeal to anyone interested in an academic life.

Although I have not read this book since I was @ five yrs. old, this book has always been in my mind since. To me it was a very warm story filled with love. It possesses a fond memory for me.

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Tsunesaburo Makiguchi is one of Japan's most significant yet perhaps least-recognized educators. His fame as the founder of Soka Gakkai has somewhat eclipsed his reputation as an educator. (Soka Gakkai International is now the largest Buddhist organization in the world with over 12 million members in 128 nations.)

Mr. Makiguchi had spent a lifetime developing his "value-creating" educational philosophy from his experience as teacher, principal, and teacher of teachers before he founded the Buddhist lay organization.

A man ahead of his time, Mr. Makiguchi made proposals over sixty years ago that are being made anew today. He was staunchly opposed to the rote memorization that was the backbone of Japanese pedagogy in his day (and largely remains so today), and he called for greater involvement by community members in the education of children.

The author, himself an educator, gives a clear and vivid picture of the magnitude and revolutionary quality of Mr. Makiguchi's theories. Until this book, Tsunesaburo Makiguchi has gone virtually unrecognized in the West because so little information on non-Western educators has been available in English. This work fills a need at a time when Mr. Makiguchi's impact on education and society is of increasing importance.

Tsunesaburo Makiguchi is one of Japan's most significant yet perhaps least-recognized educators. His fame as the founder of Soka Gakkai has somewhat eclipsed his reputation as an educator. (Soka Gakkai International is now the largest Buddhist organization in the world with over 12 million members in 128 nations.)

Mr. Makiguchi had spent a lifetime developing his "value-creating" educational philosophy from his experience as teacher, principal, and teacher of teachers before he founded the Buddhist lay organization.

A man ahead of his time, Mr. Makiguchi made proposals over sixty years ago that are being made anew today. He was staunchly opposed to the rote memorization that was the backbone of Japanese pedagogy in his day (and largely remains so today), and he called for greater involvement by community members in the education of children.

The author, himself an educator, gives a clear and vivid picture of the magnitude and revolutionary quality of Mr. Makiguchi's theories. Until this book, Tsunesaburo Makiguchi has gone virtually unrecognized in the West because so little information on non-Western educators has been available in English. This work fills a need at a time when Mr. Makiguchi's impact on education and society is of increasing importance.

I agree. He was also my high school English teacher and my FAVORITE teacher. I got the book as a Christmas gift & I love it. It was awesome to read just because I actually knew the author. It's a great book. It definitely gets 5 stars from me!! I hope to read more of his books in the future as well. I do want to know why "Ashry" was not mentioned in this book. Don't you Felicity? haha Just kidding!

Ashley(Addy)Pierce

Mr. McNeill was my high school English teacher. You can ask most of my classmates, he was one of the most fun and inspirational instructors we had throughout our years in high school. He left the greatest impact on our educational journey and taught us much more than we realized at the time. If you were to ask each of us who our favorite teacher was, I would guess that 99.9% would say Mr. Roy McNeill.
One of the people he mentioned in his book was our principal that year. Mr. McNeill, I want you to know that you're not the only one who he offended, belittled, and down right annoyed. That man was a petulant old man...haha!
But seriously, this book was wonderful. I am so proud of and for Mr. McNeill on all of his accomplishments, and I am so happy that he is in such a great place now that truly makes him happy. I wish him all the best.
I recommend this book to anyone and everyone, especially those in the educational field. It gives every emotion: happiness, sadness, intrigue, excitement, suspense, humor, wit...it has it all. I hope to see many more books from DOCTOR McNeill in the future :)

"More Than a Slave: The Life of Katherine Ferguson" by Margaret Pagan is a fictionalized account of the ex-enslaved woman who founded New York's first Sunday School and pioneered work among the abolitionist and Christian communities of her day. Thoroughly researched and passionately written, "More Than a Slave" tells the story of double emancipation--from the sin of slavery and from the slavery of sin. Anyone wanting more insight into the amazing history of African American believers will be delighted and encouraged by Pagan's work.

Reviewer: Dr. Robert W. Kellemen is the author of "Beyond the Suffering: Embracing the Legacy of African American Soul Care and Spiritual Direction." He has also authored "Soul Physicians" and "Spiritual Friends."

Author, Margaret D. Pagan wrote very passionately regarding our ancestors struggles of slavery in the early 1800's. The character of Katherine Ferguson portrays a beautifully spirited, God - fearing slave who walked in the vast knowledge that she was indeed `More Than A Slave.' Pagan wrote Katherine Ferguson's character with well-defined diction. I highly recommend this book for those who may have any doubt that God is definitely in control. This would be a great read for children who love to read as well.

Much Respect, Linda Washington-Johnson,
Jackson Mississippi Readers Club Reviewer

Detailed and exhaustive book by/about Ichihashi who came to the US from Japan in 1984 at the age of 16 to study. He graduated from Stanford, got a Ph.D. from Harvard, became a professor at Stanford. He and his wife and son "relocated" to Santa Anita and then Tule Lake and then Granada (Amache) during WWII. He became embittered and an elitist during the war years, which is told in a very dramatic albiet exhaustive fashion in the book via his letters. Following relocation he and his wife returned to a very different Stanford University and environs, which he found very difficult to cope with. Very enjoyable book, personal as well as historical.

Though long and at times cumbersome to read, this is a valuable addition to the literature in Asian American and World War II internment history. Yamato Ichihashi is an all but forgotten figure who has left a written record of his internment experience as he lived it, making this book a rare and important piece that all students of the internment should read. At the same time, this book belongs to the body of literature in Asian American social history. Who knew that in the early 1900s, Stanford University had a Japanese American professor among its faculty? What kind of life did he lead considering his anomalous position as an academic compared to other Japanese in America and the intense anti-Asian atmosphere of those times in the West? How does knowledge of this man's life enrich our understanding of Asian American history and American history at large? All of those questions are satisfyingly answered. Ichihashi's writings take center stage in the book, but Chang provides lucidly written annotations and a bibliographic essay that make the volume quite readable and enjoyable. Chang allows Ichihashi's words to speak for themselves which allows the reader to get a very vivid picture of life in the internment camps. In addition, reading his thoughts about his circumstances as an academic, a professor at Stanford, and an internee offer rare and revealing insights.