Teaching with Compassion: An Educator’s Oath to Teach from the Heart, by by Peter Kaufman and Janine Schipper. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. July 2018. ISBN: 978-1-4758-3655-4. 170 pages. Paperback: $28.00.

This is not a conventional book review. I was good friends with one of the authors of the book, Peter Kaufman, until he passed away last November, a few months after the book’s release. I try to provide an objective assessment of the book itself, but more than that, I offer some insight into Peter’s life and commitment to the ideals embodied in those pages.