Harvard Family--A Harvard PhD's Teaching Textbook: A Harvard PhD's Teaching Textbook

Author: William Bennett
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Publish Date: 2004-05-01
Features: Following The Book of Virtues, this is another great classic in inspirational literature. Harvard University has produced 7 U.S. Presidents, 34 Nobel Prize winners, and hundreds of world-class financial elites. These outstanding individuals have had a profound impact on the United States and the world, and continue to do so. What has Harvard done to shape these giants? What hidden secrets are there in their education? Each story in The Harvard Family Album is rich in educational value and profound life lessons. It not only inspires young people to think about society and life from multiple perspectives but also ignites the spark of wisdom within them, helping them see the bigger picture from the small—seeing the ocean in a drop of water and the entire universe in a ray of sunlight. This is both a textbook for raising children and a self-improvement guide for adults. Many parents who hope their children succeed often believe children should do this or that, yet they themselves often go in the opposite direction. They think they are wiser than their children, but that is not always the case. If we are not better than our children, we should at least grow alongside them. May every reader of this book—whether a young person uninitiated to the world or an adult who has weathered life’s storms—find a story or a sentence within that changes their life, transforming them from ordinary to extraordinary, from failure to success.