Teacher in America
Title:
Teacher in America
Author:
Barzun, Jacques, 1907-2012.
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Publication Information:
Boston : Little, Brown and company [1945]
Physical Description:
vi. 321 pages ; 21 cm
General Note:
"An Atlantic monthly press book."
"First edition."
London edition (V. Gollancz ltd.) has title: We who teach.
Language:
English
Contents:
- Profession: teacher -- - Pupils into students -- - Two minds, one thought -- - How to write and be read -- - How to read and be right -- - Let x equal -- - The ivory lab -- - Clio: a muse -- - What once were frills -- - Tongues and areas -- - The classics off the shelf -- - Columbia College, Columbia University -- - Deans within deans -- - The Ph. D. octopus -- - Your I.Q. or your life -- - The human boy -- - The subjection of women -- - Adults, workers, and marriageable girls -- - Our nation of highbrows -- - The little money -- - To a young man who...
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Book