Letters to My Children: Tweets to Make You Think
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Jonathan Jansen
Prof Jonathan Jansen is a leading South African educationist, commentator and the author of several books including the best-selling 'Letters to My Children'. He is the former vice-chancellor of the University of the Free State, where he earned a reputation for transformation and a deep commitment to reconciliation. He is married with two children.
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Introduction
Blame my favourite writer. You have not ‘felt’ writing unless you’ve read Maya Angelou, the great African-American author, poet and activist who wrote a famous book called I know why the caged bird sings. But it was her Letter to my daughter that really got my attention. As I read her letter I could not think of a greater gift to offer my own children than the life lessons I’ve learnt from hard experience. Now of course our parents (and other elders) leave all of us letters, so to speak, by which I mean those sayings we call to mind in later years in the form of ‘my mother always used to say that …’ or ‘my father’s favourite line was …’, and so