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Book Review: Teaching Life: Life Lessons for Aspiring (and Inspiring) Teachers

Shere Holleman | Published on 3/15/2022
Teaching Life: Life Lessons for Aspiring (and Inspiring) Teachers 
by Todd Shy 

Reviewed by Ed Ladd 
There are books that make you smile, think, and remember. There are books that inspire you and there are books that you want to share. Todd Shy has written a book that does all of these things in his love letter to his daughters and to his profession – teaching. Part memoir, part treatise on education, and part meditation on his “teaching life,” Shy has written a beauty of a book with echoes of Emerson and Thoreau that examines his life as a teacher and a student with candor and wisdom. Shy’s poignant self-reflection is guaranteed to touch the strings of your soul and, like me, you will see part of yourself in much that he explores.

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