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RESPONSES TO Raspberies and Children "I'm stunned by your book... it is the most unique and inspiring book about education I've ever read. Your lucid, lyrical language captures the spirit of children, teaching, and learning in ways that I find miraculous." Lois Bridges, Phd. Editor: Theory and Practice SCHOLASTIC PRESS I want to shout to the world that this is an important book- it should be required reading in every teacher education institution and its message, I believe, has the power to renew teachers long in the profession. Maryann Minard, Director of Curriculum, YORK PUBLIC SCHOOLS Read More REVIEWS at AMAZON.com

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Frank H. Wallace has written about children, teachers and gardens for over 40 years. A commentator on public radio, his essays have also been published in educational journals. "The Starlight Medallions," a children's adventure novel, will be released in February of 2010.

 

From The Introduction:

Teaching is one of the most generative, selfless and inscrutable of human encounters, requiring that we leave ourselves behind and that we bring ourselves along, that we deny ourselves and use ourselves, that we surmount our personal histories and rely on them to understand personal histories in the making. The raising of raspberries and the teaching of children became, for me, companion activities. The one informed my understanding of the other. The virtues of a gardener - patience, realism, regularity of effort, careful and long-term planning, are also the virtues also of a teacher. A child wants tending as much as a garden. The most beautiful strains of character or flower are often the most fragile and require the most careful cultivation. Neglect and a want of love are the greatest enemies of gardens and children. No more than flowers do habits of the mind and heart spring full-grown. What is required of a gardener or a teacher is an active and tireless labor that appreciates things as they are and realistically imagines what they might become.

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