But she has passion for marketing The Giving Book, a personalized activity book for teaching kids the importance of charity.
When he retires, Selig said he wants to write a book and continue teaching.
Also, I think this book could be an extremely valuable teaching tool and would like to look into using it as such once the book is published.
In addition to teaching, he also plans a book and some television work following his formal departure from the White House.
The current focus on pre-emption, resulting from the political debate over particular pre-emptive policies and actions, now affords me an opportunity to bring my thinking, teaching and writing together into a short book.
He reminds me a bit of Copernicus, who worked as an official of the Catholic Church, dedicated his book to the Pope, and in the book overturned centuries of Church teaching on how the heavens move.
But colleges as factories for teaching what anyone can now get out of a book seem archaic enough that we should probably stop using them to do such.
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Shouldn't I be teaching my kid that you can't judge a book by its cover?
In a lot of respects, teaching a customer to pay ten dollars for a digital book is a great accomplishment.
Dr Hilary Leevers, of the Campaign for Science and Engineering, said science teachers would be teaching evolution not creationism and so should not need a book to tell them how to "delicately handle controversy between a scientific theory and a belief".
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All royalties from the sales of the book will be donated to The Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship, a non-profit organization that provides programs that inspire young people from low-income communities to stay in school, recognize business opportunities, and plan for successful futures.
The book was inspired by the Eden Project, which is all about teaching children how we need to look after plants and how plants can look after us.
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In 1963, at the age of forty-six, he made up for it by setting up his own informal school in a London railway station, teaching half a dozen teenagers in exchange for a little tobacco or a second-hand art book.
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He was then an academic at Harvard Business School for some 30 years and started teaching marketing there at a time when, legend has it, he had never previously read a book on the subject.
My friend and colleague, John Gregory, was teaching a short non-credit summer class at Pasadena City College on the history of rock songs based on his book Making Music.
Bryan Caplan, an economist at George Mason University and author of the forthcoming book "The Case Against Education, " argues that colleges are more about certifying their students than actually teaching them useful skills.
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