Review on: Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
Rating: 4/5
So a couple of weeks ago, I finally picked up and read Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom. Another wonderful book about life, love, family, death, faith, grace, and a lot of other things. I’ve read For One More Day and Five People You Meet in Heaven, but Tuesdays with Morrie comes out as more personal because it’s mostly about the interaction between two people – a student, and his teacher.
You know, in Chinese culture, teaching is one of the most revered positions. People look up to people like Mencius and Confucius, wise people who have so much knowledge and wisdom to impart on other people. But in our more Westernized culture, we sometimes forget that teachers aren’t only the people who lecture us in our classes, or who give us passing and failing marks that somewhat determine our future. Rather than the boring teacher who only reads from his book and doesn’t teach beyond the words required by the educational institution they’re in, I believe that teachers are people who teach you about life, and who leave you with something that you can take beyond the classroom.