Includes "In most sciences, one generation tears down what another has built, and what one has established another undoes. In mathematics alone, each generation adds a new story to the old structure." — Herman Henkel
[Why study mathematics? -- 12/31/06]

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Product Description

Timely and timeless words of wisdom, especially for educators

International best-selling author, Noah benShea, brings his trademark wit and wisdom to educators once again with a new collection that celebrates "the splendor of a sudden thought." Like a wise and gentle friend, this book is designed to provide support and inspiration for all teachers as they face the daily intellectual, emotional, spiritual, and physical challenges of professional and personal life. Open this book to any page and you will find both teaching and learning as you draw from a wellspring of quotations and common sense that can inform, inspire, and transform.

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #862250 in Books
• Published on: 2001-08-24
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 200 pages

Review

"Noah beShea is skilled in opening a whole world in the most minute of spaces or to bringing home a point we may have missed while we were looking and he was seeing." 

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Review

"Noah benShea is a wise and compassionate man. His writings have touched me deeply. I highly recommend his work!"

(Jack Canfield )

"To detect the quiet of each soul’s unspoken yearning or suffering and to spin the gossamer into lines that speak to all of us definitely seems to be Noah beShea’s unique talent." 

(Professor John McManmon, PhD )

"Noah beShea is skilled in opening a whole world in the most minute of spaces or to bringing home a point we may have missed while we were looking and he was seeing." 

(Robert Schaeffer )

About the Author

Noah benShea is one of North America's most respected and beloved poet-philosophers, and a source of strength to millions around the world. He is the international best selling author of 20 books translated into 18 languages, including the famed Jacob the Baker series. He has spoken and taught at the best universities; served as a Dean at UCLA, visiting lecturer at MIT and The Fuqua Graduate Business School at Duke University, guest professor of Philosophy at the University of California, San Francisco Medical School, and a Fellow at several long range think tanks including USC's Center for the Humanities, and the esteemed Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions.

If you "Google" his name you find over 25,000 websites tied to his work. Noah benShea's inspirational thoughts are branded with some of North America's largest companies, dramatically impacting the workplace, and have appeared in hospitals, banks, on sugar packets, apparel, teddy bears and on over 30 million Starbucks Coffee Cups. His weekly columns on life were published for five years by the New York Times Regional Syndicate, and nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. He has spoken at the Library of Congress, is included in the Congressional Record, been published by Oxford University Press, and theWorld Bible Society in Jerusalem.

A highly sought after public speaker, he is also a private advisor to corporate and political leaders, serves as an Ethicist for the The Sansum Diabetes Research Institute, was nominated for the Grawemeyer Award for Ideas that Improve the World Order, and in 2007 his work in Russian translation won 1st Prize at the European Intellectual Book Fair in Moscow. Noah benShea is also the Nat ional Laureate for the ALS Association.