Biography & Autobiography - Educators

Why are some nations rich and others poor? Why do the citizens of some countries lead a happy, prosperous life while others struggle in terrible want?This book takes the reader through the eventful life journey of one of Singapore's best known economists and educators,...

Brian Paul is a seasoned thirty year veteran of EMS beginning his training as an EMT Basic then advancing to an EMT-Intermediate. Brian brings the reality of his profession and experience to the pages before you. Brian is forthright in describing the sacrifices that...

As Kim Phipps, President, Messiah College, puts it, "Offering truth-filled candor and grace-filled insight, Snyder has written an engaging memoir that will speak to any individual's personal exploration and embrace of the vocational journey." How does a Mennonite farm girl, whose "closed" Oregon community...

ALBERT EINSTEINAlbert Einstein will forever be remembered as one of the world's greatest minds. His achievements are numerous, and his life story is an incredible one. Einstein lived in many places around the world, and left a huge footprint behind. In this book you...

In Canadian universities in the early 1960s, no courses were offered on Hinduism, Buddhism, or Islam. Only the study of Christianity was available, usually in a theology program in a church college or seminary. Today almost every university in North America has a religious...

Our Journey is a true story of how one couple got through the trials and tribulations of dealing with early onset Alzheimer's. When his wife started calling him at work because she was lost while driving around their small town, he started to wonder...

Darby, the Horse from Hope is a story of how animals can sense and react to the needs of humans. That is why horses have been found to be so successful in providing therapy for people with many different needs. There are horse therapy...

If you've been looking for a way to go from that surfboard to the Greek classroom, this is the book for you That's not your goal? Then how about following God's leading wherever it takes you? Dave Black believes it's all about mission, and...

A year before she was to retire, Dr. Ann Angell volunteered to start a new class at the Montessori public school where she'd been teaching for a decade. Her mission was to guide and encourage her students -- second, third, and fourth graders with...

The book describes the author's eventful life, which spans over seventy years, in three different countries and on as many continents.Author: Gavriel ShapiroISBN-10: 1618115057ISBN-13: 9781618115058Publisher: Academic Studies PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/10/2016Pages: 294Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.30lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.69d

A Lesson for the Teacher is the autobiographical journey of a man from a Jewish family, raised with mixed and often confusing views about faith and life. As he stumbles his way into teaching, and into the hands of God, the door is opened...

"No other reformer struck out a more original and independent course than Ulrich Zwingli (1483-1531). No other man attempted to be, at the same time, a preacher, author, statesman, military patriot and reformer. Why he gave such varied direction to his noble energies, and...

Author: Fritz RingerISBN-10: 1583482059ISBN-13: 9781583482056Publisher: iUniverseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/01/1999Pages: 108Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.40lbsSize: 9.07h x 6.05w x 0.33d

In the early 1900s, Mary Matthews and Lella Gaddis forged trails for women at Purdue University and throughout Indiana. Mary was the first dean of the School of Home Economics. Lella was Indiana's first state leader of Home Demonstration. In 1914, Mary hired Lella...

A woman ahead of her time, the remarkable Dr. Annie Dove Denmark dedicated her life to higher education and the youth of her day. As the first female college president of both Anderson College and in the state of South Carolina, Dr. Denmark faced...

The bygone eras of our past gave rise to a generation with stories worth holding on to, taking place in a world that has since vanished from America, for better or for worse. Yet triumph and delight grow from unexpected sources. Once Below a...

Prepare to dive into a compelling, heartfelt, memoir of Devilishly Angelic; the product of poverty, hardship and trauma. Onset of visual hallucinations and life transition spiraled this Chicagoan in the search of spiritual meaning to her life. Based on her own experiences and others...

This inspiring memoir by a lifelong educator is for the young, teens, older adults, alumni, and parents. While attending school he helped defray college costs with part time temporary jobs such as: a stone-quarry driver, railroad worker, candy factory employee, and soldier. Six years...

The book tells the true storie in the Lower -Congo in the last century . While the majority of the territory assigned to the Belgian colonial power at the Berlin Conference in 1877, is still unexplored, born in 1921 in the village of Luvituku...

In 1900 Denton Jacques Snider wrote about Friedrich (Frederick) Froebel and his life experiences which led to the founding of the first kindergarten. Over a century later, a Froebel family member and author of two children's books about Froebel and kindergarten, expands the publication...

In 1900 Denton Jacques Snider wrote about Friedrich (Frederick) Froebel and his life experiences which led to the founding of the first kindergarten. Over a century later, a Froebel family member and author of two children's books about Froebel and kindergarten, expands the publication...

Against all odds Art J. McCoy, Ph.D., became Missouri's youngest certified teacher at age nineteen and the youngest and first African-American superintendent of schools in Ferguson, Missouri, at age thirty-three. His father was born during the lowest point of The Great Depression and had...

In a neighborhood jammed with look-alike clapboard houses in a South Carolina Cotton mill village, author William Hale grew up as an inquisitive boy who climbed trees, played sandlot baseball, and learned his greatest life lessons from unexpected places. Amid the darkness of the...

Biography: Neusner is a social commentator, a post-Holocaust theologian, and an outspoken political figure. Jacob Neusner (born 1932) is one of the most important figures in the shaping of modern American Judaism. He was pivotal in transforming the study of Judaism from an insular...

No one knows how unpredictable first graders can be better than a first-grade teacher. In Mommy Couldn't Find Her Eyelashes, retired elementary educator Mary Jane Fizer shares excerpts from written papers and some of her favorite amusing and poignant conversations with her first-grade students,...

John I. Goodlad has been an unflagging voice for humanistic ideals in education for more than six decades and has helped reframe the modern discourse on the role and function of schools. For Goodlad the goal of public education is to help children become...

Published in 1891, Autobiography of John G. Fee, Berea, Kentucky describes various incidents that epitomize Fee's experience as an abolitionist in the South, beginning with his religious conversion in early childhood. The text details his beliefs, his role in founding Berea, and the obstacles...

When Erminia "Minnie" Lopez Rincon was born, she was not breathing, but the attendant working on her tiny body did not give up until Rincon was breathing on her own. So began the life of a Mexican American woman who would not only endure...

This is the story of a reform minded man who translated his interest in liberal education and academic freedom into a unique interpretation of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution. Although he died in 1964 his interpretation is still being applied to...

Joseph LeConte was born to Louis and Ann LeConte in Liberty, Georgia in 1823. He attended the University of Georgia and then studied medicine at the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York. He discovered he preferred teaching, however, and, after earning degrees...

Society needs to learn all about teaching requirements. My book has not been written to place blame on any school system or administrator. Having worked in many schools and knowing educators, the true story is the same across cities. So many other professions place...

What really goes on in the principal's office? What's Shaking The School reveals the school community through the eyes of a seasoned educator and school leader. With candor and caring, humor and pathos, the experiences of one elementary principal shed light upon other questions...

Author: Anna Harriette LeonowensISBN-10: 1425538312ISBN-13: 9781425538316Publisher: University of Michigan LibraryLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/13/2006Pages: 368Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.13lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.76d

Author: Robert F. CalimeriISBN-10: 1418441651ISBN-13: 9781418441654Publisher: AuthorhouseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/06/2004Pages: 292Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.95lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.66d

For twenty-eight years Sandra Oaks taught five, six, and seven year olds. She laughed with them; she cried with them; she prayed for them; and she kept a journal of her experiences. PLEASE DON'T EAT THE CRABAPPLES is a reflection of the laughter, tears...

It is important to have complete knowledge of a man who throughout a long life, sacrificed himself for what was, perhaps, the most fertile idea of modern times - the regeneration of nations by elementary education; a man who, passionately loving the people in...

Author: Eleanor W. CunninghamISBN-10: 1403336954ISBN-13: 9781403336958Publisher: 1st Book LibraryLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/15/2002Pages: 280Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.93lbsSize: 9.20h x 6.06w x 0.72d

Growing up, Reid was confused and disturbed by the radically different opportunities his best friend received. After a childhood spent together, Jamie and Reid found themselves on opposite sides of a high school hallway that separated kids based on a misunderstanding of their supposed...

Giving My All is the true story of how Earl Martin Phalen's adoption into an all-white family led him on a lifelong journey to improve the outcomes for black and brown children across the country.Author: Earl Martin PhalenISBN-10: 1636980503ISBN-13: 9781636980508Publisher: Morgan James PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished:...

Florence Nightingale was a great pioneer of nursing, her gifts for organizing and arranging a model of care resulted in many lives being saved during the Crimean War.This biography unveils the woman behind the icon - it covers the entirety of Nightingale's life, from...

Jan was an outstanding teacher who inspired students and teachers alike until multiple sclerosis forced her to retire. In this poignant memoir, Jan's filmmaker husband relates the story of her journey through life and how it was shaped by things both large and small....

This collection of narratives and poems pay homage to the life journey of the class of 2023. A juxtaposition of emotions, the voices of our seniors intertwine hope with fear and joy with sorrow. As the title, "Moving Forward, Looking Backward" suggests, the stories...

Do you remember learning to drive?Are you planning on teaching someone who is?Are you prepared for the journey ahead?Are you currently learning to drive?Are you ready for your driving test?Discover the world of driving from an instructor's viewpoint: the other side of the car.It...

This expression of truth about healing invites you into a space of healing no matter how old or how hidden your pain. Readers understand how what happens in childhood determines the quality of our emotional and physical health. Readers will identify with families protecting...

Available post-free in the UK from the publisher's website, www.lifeisamazing.co.uk.John Pounds of Portsmouth was famous in the 19th Century. His life, dedicated to teaching, feeding and clothing the poorest children from the most wretched parts of Portsmouth sparked a revolution in the education of...

Writing about oneself, says Patricia Foster, "engages in truth but depends on the imagination, on the life just beneath the skin, a life that's impressionistic and fragile." These eleven closely linked personal essays are at once an absorbing chronicle of a life fully undertaken...

These highly personal essays reflect experiences and insights of key geographers of the past half-century. Contributors not only document the growing concern for research on social conditions and social justice, they also prove that scholarly commitment .is still vibrant and healthy in the discipline....

Published in France in 1977 as Une Soupe aux Herbes Sauvages, this autobiography of a peasant woman reared in the stony insularity of a tiny Alpine village reveals the unfolding of a formidable person. Carles, born in 1900, writes of her life in the...

Paul Rusch first traveled from Louisville, Kentucky, to Tokyo in 1925 to help rebuild YMCA facilities in the wake of the Great Kanto earthquake. What was planned as a yearlong stay became his life's work as he joined with the Japan Episcopal Church to...

"Apartheid South Africa was on fire around me." So begins the memoir of Career Foreign Service Officer Edward J. Perkins, the first black United States ambassador to South Africa. In 1986, President Ronald Reagan gave him the unparalleled assignment: dismantle apartheid without violence. As...