"A travš de aleccionadoras historias de la Biblia, fb?ulas, poemas y cuentos de autores c?ebres como Aristt?eles, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sor Juana Inš de la Cruz, Len? Tolsti?, William Shakespeare, Charles Dickens, Walt Whitman, Miguel de Unamuno, Francis Bacon y Oscar Wilde, los lectores descubrir? un tesoro de valores morales, fortaleza y sabidura? que los ayudar ?a tomar decisiones con generosidad y sentido ?ico, los impulsar ?a superar obstc?ulos y los acompa?r ?en el camino de la vida." --From publisher's description.… (más)
Responsibility. Courage. Compassion. Honesty. Friendship. Persistence. Faith. Everyone recognizes these traits as essentials of good character. In order for our children to develop such traits, we have to offer them examples of good and bad, right and wrong. And the best places to find them are in great works of literature and exemplary stories from history.
William J. Bennett has collected hundreds of stories in "The Book of Virtues", an instructive and inspiring anthology that will help children understand and develop character -- and help adults teach them. From the Bible to American history, from Greek mythology to English poetry, from fairy tales to modern fiction, these stories are a rich mine of moral literacy, a reliable moral reference point that will help anchor our children and ourselves in our culture, our history, and our traditions -- the sources of the ideals by which we wish to live our lives. Complete with instructive introductions and notes, "The Book of Virtues" is a book the whole family can read and enjoy -- and learn from -- together.
I rolled my eyes at the beginning because there was so. much. poetry. But, by the end, I was loving the poetry more than the poor, mutilated stories. I feel like it is an average collection of above-par works (or sections of works). So the rating might not be accurate. But I couldn't rate those letters from Lincoln less than a 4. ( )
For the most part, I liked this book. I was reading this book off and on as I waited for books to come from the library. There were a lot of good lessons, poems that I like and some Bible stories. I tended to skip over or skim stories from mythology and other religions. ( )
You know that the beginning is the most important part of any work, especially in the case of a young and tender thing; for that is the time at which the character is being formed and the desired impression is more readily taken. ... Shall we just carelessly allow children to hear any casual tales which may be devised by casual persons, and to receive into their minds ideas for the most part the very opposite of those which we should wish them to have when they are grown up? We cannot. ... Anything received into the mind at that age is likely to become indelible and unalterable; and therefore it is most important that the tales which the young first hear should be models of virtuous thoughts. ... Then will our youth dwell in a land of health, amid fair sights and sounds, and receive the good in everything; and beauty, the effluence of fair works, shall flow into the eye and ear, like a health-giving breeze from a purer region, and insensibly draw the soul from the earliest years into likeness and sympathy with the beauty of reason. There can be no nobler training than that. (Plato's "Republic")
[Introduction] And ironically enough I owe her thanks because on myny nights long after I fell asleep, tired from a day of doing a lot of things--including putting this book together--she was the one still awake and reading good stories like these to our boys.
"A travš de aleccionadoras historias de la Biblia, fb?ulas, poemas y cuentos de autores c?ebres como Aristt?eles, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sor Juana Inš de la Cruz, Len? Tolsti?, William Shakespeare, Charles Dickens, Walt Whitman, Miguel de Unamuno, Francis Bacon y Oscar Wilde, los lectores descubrir? un tesoro de valores morales, fortaleza y sabidura? que los ayudar ?a tomar decisiones con generosidad y sentido ?ico, los impulsar ?a superar obstc?ulos y los acompa?r ?en el camino de la vida." --From publisher's description.
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William J. Bennett has collected hundreds of stories in "The Book of Virtues", an instructive and inspiring anthology that will help children understand and develop character -- and help adults teach them. From the Bible to American history, from Greek mythology to English poetry, from fairy tales to modern fiction, these stories are a rich mine of moral literacy, a reliable moral reference point that will help anchor our children and ourselves in our culture, our history, and our traditions -- the sources of the ideals by which we wish to live our lives. Complete with instructive introductions and notes, "The Book of Virtues" is a book the whole family can read and enjoy -- and learn from -- together.