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The Priority List

a Teacher's Final Quest to Discover Life's Greatest Lessons
Apr 14, 2014
"In The Priority List, former high school English teacher David Menasche explains a teaching tool he developed to help his students understand the literature they were studying. He gave them a list of concepts such as love, honour, respect, and power and asked them to rank the importance of these concepts in a literary work. Though he realised the students' rankings gave him insight into their own lives, Menasche didn't create his own priority list until years later. To his surprise, friendship and education ranked above his marriage. After brain cancer forced him to quit teaching, he travelled around the country to renew his connections with former students." Biography and Memoir April 2014 newsletter http://www.libraryaware.com/996/NewsletterIssues/ViewIssue/43337901-34d1-4c84-b134-32954b837d7d?postId=71b729f6-9022-4878-baad-967f3a6f4063