Description

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In vibrant prose, Z. Vance Wilson offers insight to anyone, whether parent or teacher, responsible for guiding children on the joyous, difficult, and ever-unpredictable path to becoming their best selves intellectually, socially, morally, and spiritually. With judiciousness, good will, and humor (all sharpened as head of a leading boys' school in Washington, D.C.), Wilson puts forth a clear set of principles, both practical and idealistic, for adults directing children toward wisdom and joy. An award-winning novelist, Wilson draws on colorful tales from his childhood in the American south, rousing episodes in history, and a remarkable assortment of poems, novels, and biblical readings, to illustrate the challenges children face and to illuminate the ways adults may best reach and teach them.

About the Author

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Z. Vance Wilson has served as headmaster of St. Albans School in Washington, D.C. since 1999. A graduate of Yale University with degrees from Trinity College, Dublin, and the University of Virginia, he previously taught and served as an administrator at the Lovett School in Atlanta, the Asheville School in Asheville, NC, the Madison Area Technical College, in Madison, WI, the Tower Hill School in Wilmington, DE, and the Bryn Mawr School in Baltimore, MD. He is the author of They Took Their Stand: The Integration of Southern Private Schools and an award-winning novel, The Quick and the Dead, and he has coauthored two books on curriculum issues, Paths to New Curriculum and Taking Measure.