WITH LOVE AND PRAYERS: A HEADMASTER SPEAKS TO THE NEXT GENERATION
Book ID/图书代码： 03650109B33554
English Summary/英文概要： Here, at last is a book of "uncommon common sense" for young people by someone who has worked with them for thirty-five years. F. Washington Jarvis is one of the nation’s most eminent educators, now in his twenty-eighth year as headmaster of Boston’s Roxbury Latin School, the oldest school in continuous operation in North America.
Jarvis’s approach is anecdotal. "If it is true that a picture is worth a thousand words, it is ten times as true when you are speaking to young teenagers. They are gripped by the story of how real people cope with real situations. They are interested when you share with them the concrete realities of your own life and experience, and they are almost always willing to listen to adults who actually believe in something, who actually stand for something."
Jarvis’s addresses, reprinted from his school’s publications, have enjoyed something of a cult "underground" circulation among young people – and their parents and grandparents. Now his "top hits" have been brought together in a single volume for wider circulation.
The author never talks down to his audience. He knows that – appearances to the contrary – students are asking the deepest questions, questions about whether life has meaning and purpose. He also knows that teenagers often find themselves caught by surprise in situations where they have to make tough decisions. And he believes that they are willing, even eager, to know how others have coped in similar situations.
This is a book of deep and practical wisdom, one of our surprise "bestsellers" in hardcover, and now available in softcover to serve an even wider audience.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 这是一本美国著名教育家的演讲文集，蕴含很多年轻人梦寐以求的深刻又实际的智慧。
作者贾维斯校长在一所历史悠久、声誉卓著的高中任职35年，其丰富的教学经验、人生阅历和思想精华，都集中体现于每月对学生的演讲中。校长将亲爱的学生视同己出，每次演讲不用老生常谈大道理，只以自身经历的真实故事，娓娓道来生命中各种“不平常的常识”，预备学生面对复杂的人生。
他热情关注学生的品格塑造，挑战他们思考人生的意义；他坦诚探讨在艰难处境中如何做正确决定，鼓励学生敢于拥有更远大的梦想和志向。
全书在亲切平实中透出沉甸甸的语重心长，校长对学生挥不去的深爱跃然纸上。
这些演讲曾作为内刊被几代学生流传和珍藏，现结集出版，惟愿惠及更多读者。(DB)
Awards/获奖情况：Winner of the 2001 Christopher Award
About the Author/作者介绍： 华盛顿•贾维斯（Washington Jarvis）：毕业于哈佛大学和剑桥大学。34岁时被选为波士顿罗克斯伯里拉丁学校校长，因杰出的成就而被授予多种荣誉。
F. Washington “Tony” Jarvis is an Episcopal priest who served from 1974 to 2004 as headmaster of The Roxbury Latin School in Boston. Earlier, from 1964 to 1971, he was curate at St. Paul’s Church in Cleveland. In 1971 he was appointed chairman of the History Department at University School in Cleveland, and the following year Assistant Director, Upper School. After retiring from Roxbury Latin – prior to going to Yale – he served twice as a chaplain and master at Eton College in England, and as scholar-in-residence at schools in Perth and Sydney, Australia. He is past president of the Headmasters Association of the United States and of the Country Day School Headmasters Association, and former chairman of the Commission on Independent Schools of the New England Association of Schools and Colleges. He has been a trustee of the Independent School Association of Massachusetts, Winsor School, the American Friends of Maru a Pula, a school in Botswana, and currently serves on the Board of Regents of Portsmouth Abbey School. Since 1976 he has been priest associate at All Saints’ Church, Ashmont, in Dorchester, MA, an inner city parish. He is the author of six books and numerous articles in the fields of history, education, and religion. His most recent book, With Love and Prayers, a collection of forty addresses to students, won the Christopher Award for adult non-fiction. He holds honorary doctorates from Bowdoin College and Middlebury College.
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Rights Status/版权销售情况：Simplified Chinese/简体中文：AVAILABLE(到期可授)
Complex/Traditional Chinese/繁体中文：AVAILABLE
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