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A Teacher's Final Quest to Discover Life's Greatest Lessons

von David Menasche

240 Seiten, Taschenbuch

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"David Menasche lived for his work as a high school English teacher ssion inspired his students, and between lessons on Shakespeare and sentence structure, he forged a unique bond with his kids, buoying them through personal struggles while sharing valuable life lessons. When brain cancer ultimately stole David s vision, memory, mobility, and most tragically of all his ability to continue teaching, he was devastated by the thought that he would no longer have the chance to impact his students lives each day. But teaching was something Menasche just couldn t give up. Undaunted by the difficult road ahead of him, he decided to end his treatments and make life his classroom. He turned to Facebook with an audacious plan: a journey across America by bus, by train, by red-tipped cane in hopes of seeing firsthand how his kids were faring in life. Had he made a difference? Within forty-eight hours of posting, former students in more than fifty cities replied with offers of support and shelter. Traveling more than eight thousand miles from Miami to New York, and visiting hundreds of his students, David s fearless journey explores the things we all want and need out of life family, security, independence, love, adventure and forces us to stop to consider what truly matters in life."--