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TB#06 : tuesdays with Morrie

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  “Love is how you stay alive even after you’re gone.” If reading useless research papers feels suffocating, here’s a paper you have got to read. Subject is The Meaning of Life, taught from experience. The professor, Morrie Schwartz gave no grades. He didn’t ask for books, yet covered a wide range of topics – Culture, family, money, Regrets, ageing and others including Death. There was no final exam, but his student, Mitch Albom, was expected to produce a long paper on what he learnt. And that’s how this book came to be. This is a treasury of the knowledge passed form a teacher of sociology to his student over a course of THIRTEEN Tuesdays… thirteen invaluable lessons. This book swiftly turns pages through sections such as The Curriculum, The Syllabus, Student, Orientation, Classroom and among others, saying good-bye with the Graduation, wonderfully setting up a theme of a typical University, with an exceptional professor. Don’t mistake this book for a mere claptrap!  ...