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Being Home - An Anthology (Hardcover): Sam Pickering, Bob Kunzinger Being Home - An Anthology (Hardcover)
Sam Pickering, Bob Kunzinger
R715 Discovery Miles 7 150 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Letters to a Teacher (Paperback): Sam Pickering Letters to a Teacher (Paperback)
Sam Pickering
R397 R333 Discovery Miles 3 330 Save R64 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Sam Pickering has been teaching, guiding, performing, and inspiring for more than forty years. As a young English teacher at Montgomery Bell Academy in Tennessee, his musings on literature and his maverick pedagogy touched a student named Tommy Schulman, who later wrote the screenplay for Dead Poets Society. Letters to a Teacher is a welcome reminder that teaching is a joy and an art. In ten graceful yet conversational letters addressed to teachers of all types, Pickering shares compelling, funny, always elucidating anecdotes from a lifetime in the classrooms of school and universities. His priceless, homespun observations touch on topics such as competition, curiosity, enthusiasm, and truth. More than a how-to guide, Letters to a Teacher is an invitation into the hearts and minds of an extraordinary educator and his students, and an irresistible call to reflection for the teacher who knows he or she must be compassionate, optimistic, respectful, firm, and above all dynamic. This is an indispensable guide for teachers and laymen alike.

The Gate in the Garden Wall (Paperback): Sam Pickering The Gate in the Garden Wall (Paperback)
Sam Pickering
R531 Discovery Miles 5 310 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Being Home - An Anthology (Paperback): Sam Pickering, Bob Kunzinger Being Home - An Anthology (Paperback)
Sam Pickering, Bob Kunzinger
R545 Discovery Miles 5 450 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Terrible Sanity (Paperback): Sam Pickering Terrible Sanity (Paperback)
Sam Pickering
R510 R456 Discovery Miles 4 560 Save R54 (11%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The World Was My Garden, Too (Paperback): Sam Pickering The World Was My Garden, Too (Paperback)
Sam Pickering
R552 Discovery Miles 5 520 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Dreamtime - A Happy Book (Paperback, New): Sam Pickering Dreamtime - A Happy Book (Paperback, New)
Sam Pickering
R795 Discovery Miles 7 950 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Sweeping in and out of real and imagined places, Dreamtime highlights the curious character of an unconventional teacher, writer, traveler, husband, and father as he takes stock of his multifaceted life. Sam Pickering--the inspiration for the main character in Dead Poets Society--guides us on a journey through his reflections on retirement, aging, gardening, and travel. He describes the pleasures of domesticity, summers spent in Nova Scotia, and the joy of sharing a simple life with his wife of almost forty years.
"Life is a tiresome journey," Pickering muses, "and when a man arrives at the end, he is generally out of breath." Although Pickering is now more likely to shuffle than gallop, he isn't yet out of breath, ideas, or ink. The refreshing and reflective substance of these essays shines through a patina of wit in Pickering's characteristically evocative and sincere prose. The separate events depicted in Dreamtime invite the reader into Pickering's personal experiences as well as into his viewpoints on teaching and encounters with former students. In "Spring Pruning," Pickering describes the precarious tumor in his parathyroid and the possibility of cancer affecting his daily life. In a refreshingly honest tone Pickering says, "Moreover the funeral had become a staple of chat, so much so I'd recently mulled having the raucous, insolent ringer on my telephone replaced by the recording of taps."
Appealing to creative writers and readers who enjoy an adventurous account of travels through life, Dreamtime accentuates the lifestyle of a longtime master teacher whose experiences take him from sunny days in the classroom to falling headfirst over a fence after running a half-marathon. Unpredictable, spontaneous, and always enlightening, Pickering's idiosyncratic approach and companionable charm will delight anyone who shares his intoxication with all the surprising treasures that might furnish a life with happiness.

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