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Learning to Be a Schoolmaster (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Thomas Raymond Cole

 
9781331184171: Learning to Be a Schoolmaster (Classic Reprint)

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Finally the day of graduation arrived. I was ready to go out into the world with a college diploma, but was unprepared for a definite posi tion. My false aspirations had failed, and I was looking hopelessly about for something to do that would save my pride. I must not accept just a mere job, and to escape that humiliation I became a teacher. It certainly was not a very creditable manner for a young man to enter a profession, to say nothing of the doubtful compliment of such an entry to the teaching profession. Such a confession.

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About the Author

Thomas R. Cole, PhD, is Professor and Graduate Program Director at the Institute for the Medical Humanities, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston. He is a past Chair of the Humanities and Arts Committee of the Gerontological Society and serves on various editorial boards. Senior editor of "What Does It Mean to Grow Old? Reflections from the Humanities "(1986) and of "Handbook of the Humanities and Aging "(Springer Publishing Company, 1992), he is also author of "The Journey of Life: A Cultural History of Aging in America "(Cambridge, 1992). He is now completing "No Color is My Kind: The Life Story of Eldrewey Stearns, Texas Integration Leader "(University of Texas Press), and "The Oxford Book of Aging, "to be published in 1994.

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