"A Teacher's Final Quest to Discover Life's Greatest Lessons"
The book tells the story of a teacher who finds out one day that he has a terminal brain cancer, and he won't be able to teach from now on. He decided to go out on a journey to meet his former students and ask each one of them one question: "Did I change something in your life?"
Being an educator is the main roll of my professional life. More than once I wondered if I'm a meaningful person to my students' lives?
As long as I was a homeroom teacher, as well as an English teacher, I hardly had any doubt. In the last few years, I was forced, due to health isuess, to be "just" an English teacher. It was then when I first asked myself "Am I a meaningful person in my students' lives?" "Do I leave a mark or make a change in their lives?"
Along his journey, David experience remarkable meetings with his students. He realize that he was much more than a literature and grammar teacher. I dare to say that the different between a teacher and an educator is not about what you teach but the way you teach.
You can find it in a Hebrew translation - סולם הערכים - דוויד מנשה
Eti,
ReplyDeleteYour post got my interest from the beginning and kept it all through to the end. I would like to read the book because I feel I learned enough from your review to take a chance on it, without feeling like I already know everything about it. That's a hard balance to strike in a review, but you've done it well here. A good friend once told me "God sends you the book you need to read at the moment you need it." This book sounds like it might fit that description.
This was very moving. Thank you for your review, Eti.
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