To welcome teachers and students back to school, here’s a description of education under the sea, as experienced by Lewis Carroll’s Gryphon and Mock Turtle.
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Personal News: A 2018 Retirement
In June 2018, after 38 years of teaching college, I will retire. I don’t want to go out like Walter Savage Landor’s old man–“the fire is low
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On Forgetting Old Students
Sometimes as teachers we forget students that we impacted greatly. Thomas Hardy’s Jude learns this when he looks up his old teacher Phillotson.
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Beware Teachers That Satirize Students
Tom Layman’s “The Students” is a humorous poem but, in the end, mean-spirited. It also lets the teacher off the hook.
Thoughts on Classroom Attendance
Tom Wayman’s “Did I Miss Anything” is a sarcastic put down of students who have missed classes. It allows teachers to vent but there are better answers to the question available.
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Reading Novels for Moral Instruction
“Tom Jones” teaches how to raise adolescents. And how not to.
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Don’t Underestimate Your Students
Rule #1 for literature teachers should be to listen carefully to your students’ responses. There may be hidden wisdom in even the most unpromising ones.
The Limitations of Cerebral Teaching
Teaching literature must be more than just a cerebral affair.
Teaching Lit Crit as Autobiography
Literary criticism can be a form of autobiography. Knowing that can improve our teaching.
