Nest of Teachers
by Edward Blishen
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Edward Blishen was born on April 29, 1920. He was an English author and broadcaster. He may be known best for the first of two children's novels based on Greek mythology, written with Leon Garfield, and illustrated by Charles Keeping. For The God Beneath the Sea, Blishen and Garfield won the 1970 Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, show more recognizing the year's best children's book in England. Blishen was born in Hertfordshire, England. He died on December 13, 1996. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Original publication date
- 1980
- First words
- I was on my way to be emergency-trained.
- Quotations
- Farrell, the handicrafts man, treated me with ominous sympathy, laced at times with disbelief. ‘Your gift is verbal,’ he once said. That was all very well: but since so many of our – ugh! – assessments were given for ... (show all)practical work, I took little heart from this reference to the use of words. Though it did strike me fleetingly that I might test Farrell’s sincerity by producing, not an actual wastepaper basket, but a written description of one: ideal, superb, a piece of basketwork that might have stood alongside – oh, the great baskets of all time.
"What matters, you know," he said, "is not "WHAT shall I teach?" What matters is "Shall I TEACH?"
He thought the only thing to do about poetry was to read it at odd moments, to quote it on any natural occasion, to convey generally the idea that poetry had a perfectly ordinary workaday part to play in anyone's life.... "I ... (show all)would try to time [reading a poem], in a classroom, so that nothing had to be said - we would have our little, but distinct, silence, and then the children would go away with the poem in their minds."
The withdrawal from the inhabitants of Kings Cross of all pleasant opportunities and all hope of development makes me want to cry out loud.... I want to be able to sweep the whole horror into a gigantic dustheap. - Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)And so, on that July evening in 1950, we walked through the wet world silently: while our son, in his pram, turned his small face this way and that, taking in the enormous amazement of it all.
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- Genres
- Nonfiction, Biography & Memoir, Anthropology, History
- DDC/MDS
- 371.1 — Society, government, & culture Education Schools and their activities; special education Teachers; Teaching personnel; Professors, masters instructors
- LCC
- LA2375 .G72 .B583 — Education History of education History of education Biography
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- English
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