I Remember My Teacher [Hardcover]

David Shribman (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 1, 2002

Over the course of a year writer David Shribman questioned virtually everyone he encountered about the role teachers had played in their lives. The result is this extrordinary collection of personal remembrances of teachers, relayed by people from all walks of life. Readers will be inspired by the Montreal bookseller whose math teacher taught statistics using cards and dice, by the second-grade teacher who let a young George Stephanopoulos go to the library whenever he was bored in class, and by Sister Patricia, a favorite teacher of former Secretary Of Labor Alexis Herman, who once told her, "You can fly, by that cocoon has to go." These 365 short testimonials offer a tribute to teachers for each day of the year. With accounts from Geena Davis, Clarence Thomas, Norman Schwarzkopf, and others, I Remember My Teacher... will move readers with inspiring stories of their most influential teachers, professors, and coaches.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Cab drivers, governors, executives, literary agents and many others share recollections of their most inspiring educators in this collection edited by Boston Globe Washington bureau chief Shribman. The short quotations gathered in the book describe teachers of all kinds, from a leathery-faced golf instructor to a nuclear engineering professor at North Carolina State University, to a Long Island public school teacher who taught fifth-grade students Shakespeare and made them call him "Sir."
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About the Author

David Shribman is Washington bureau chief for The Boston Globe and a nationally syndicated columnist.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 144 pages
• Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing (March 1, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0740722034
• ISBN-13: 978-0740722035
• Product Dimensions: 7.9 x 5.8 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #815,110 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars From A Retired Teacher, April 8, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: I Remember My Teacher (Hardcover)

A former student of mine sent me this book with an inscription that made my day -- make that, my year! After reading the personalized inscription a dozen times, I started reading Mr. Shribman's book. What a delight. The book made me remember why I became a teacher.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars From a teacher and a student, May 7, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: I Remember My Teacher (Hardcover)

Perfect book to make teachers feel good--and to make students remember why they loved their best teachers. There is something here for everyone--from the A student to the less successful, from college mentors to grade school inspirers. The famous and the more common former students share their reminisces with humor, with pride, but mostly with thanks. A great gift and a great read.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Impact of Teachers Revealed, May 7, 2002

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This review is from: I Remember My Teacher (Hardcover)

Part anecdote, part declaration, "I Remember My Teacher: 365 Reminiscences of the Teachers Who Changed Our Lives" will bring back the memory of your own teachers: what they said, what they did and who they are.

It caused me to remember back to my own fifth grade teacher, who, upon completing the year, wrote me a quick note which encourages me to this day. You, too, will think about your kindergarten teachers and learning your letters, or the guy who taught you the software used in your job.

Shribman uses examples from celebs galore, but the important part is learning about the teachers who helped mold the leaders of today. Tomorrow's leaders are sitting in a third grade classroom across the world, and a great teacher is guiding him or her.

Teachers can read this and be encouraged and excited that what they do does matters. Students will read this and see that their teacher's unorthodox ways and persistence in teaching makes a difference.

I fully recommend "I Remember My Teacher: 365 Reminiscences of the Teachers Who Changed Our Lives" by David M. Shribman.

Anthony Trendl