Apples for a Teacher

Apples and teachers have been connected for a long time. "Apples are to teachers what hugs are to moms and dads" says the book jacket on Apples for a Teacher: Lesson Plans for Life by Colleen Reece and Anita Corrine Donihue. Containing short stories, meditations, poems, and prayers, this collection of daily meditations directs the thoughts of teachers to the high calling and blessings to be found in their life's work. Some of the one-page readings are directed to those who work with developmentally slow, some to teachers of pregnant teenagers, some to teachers of first graders -- all the varied and difficult situations teachers face in today's schools.

These "lessons" for teachers speak of eternal values and their unending contributions to our lives as in the following selection:

One day I would like to teach a few people many wonderful and beautiful things that will help them when they will one day teach a few people.