Setting up online classes and reading texts for assignments to students for fall semester, I escaped this weekend into a Mitch Albom book that I had not yet read. This allegory about belief in life after death was interesting as applied to belief in the power of education. The detractors are vocal, the supporters are fervant, and the use of technology to manipulate circumstances is profound. Yet, miracles happen in Albom's book just as they do in education. Believe in education as the only way to change lives. And, of course, the power of love.
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09/01/2014
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- Knight, Jim: Unmistakable Impact
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