The Perfect Timetable: A Teacher's Memoir【電子書籍】[ Mervyn Pryer ]

＜p＞Have you ever wondered about the life of your favourite teacher?＜/p＞ ＜p＞What did he really think? What inspired him? Who was he really?＜/p＞ ＜p＞Mervyn Pryer began teaching in 1939 at age 19. He taught in NSW Small Schools for 41 years.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Of all the small schools in which he taught, only one remains today. It is of an era passed about which he writes. A time when young teachers were sent to isolated villages consisting of few houses and a building freezing in winter and stifling in summer, to teach the local children. The ever-present loneliness and the need to keep the kids busy and learning.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Upon retirement he began to write his memoirs, beginning with a tribute to his Father. A life begun in poverty blossoming into an innate practical ability and a strong social conscience. A train driver who possessed uncanny bushman’s skills. Mervyn admits he never knew where he was in the bush.＜/p＞ ＜p＞He reminisces about Armidale Teachers’ College. The magnificence of the building, t．．．楽天市場のショップで商品詳細の続きを見る