Letters to a Teacher

By Samuel F. Pickering Jr.

Book Overview

Sam Pickering has been teaching, guiding, performing, and inspiring for more than forty years. As a young English teacher at Montgomery Bell Academy in Tennessee, his musings on literature and his... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0871136996
• ISBN13: 9780871136992
• Release Date: December 2004
• Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

From a Non-Teacher's Perspective

I bought this book for a friend who is going was finishing up her Education degree. I read it first, though, because I found the character in Dead Poet's Society to be very inspirational, and I wanted to see what the inspiration for that had to say. I was not blown away-inspired by Pickering's words, but I found them amusing, good-natured, and thoughtful. For instance, when he writes about how "conservative" professors actually are, it was a nice and unique perspective on things, and much appreciated. I really think it would be a great gift to give someone you know that is looking into becoming a teacher or is graduating soon with a degree in Education.