Sometimes a Shining Moment
Schroth, Raymond A.
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...build- and which, taught well, can have a more Moment achieves is through its portrait of ing a log house for him to live in - but valid academic impact - and this is the Eliot as teacher and person...
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...Peter's College in Jersey City...
...he became a poem - with its "cock's shrill clarion," books: the history of how Eliot found moralist instead of a novelist...
...He had to wrench himself free from art I asked the class to enter the world of the Thus we have what could be three in order to pursue truth...
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...And unfor- and "paths of glory" that "lead but to himself as a teacher by engaging the tunately the temperament which served the grave...
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...He was a creature of enthusiasms, and found his stable identity only in a constant change A teacher's teacher of identity...
...about students who have wonderful af- spending long solitary hours with books, Meanwhile, whatever unity Shining ternoons working with him - e.g...
...overcome the lethargy of his ninth and partment at Tufts University...
...This sense of self, too, he learned from novels, notably from Rous- SOMETIMES A SHINING MOMENT: the Humanities, various foundations, and seau...
...but he under his sandaled feet" - have to make is the major moral issue must surely conwas prone to all the emotions, and felt a more complicated adjustment of their demn him and read the great books only them in bodily terms - sweats, feelings...
...Foxfire courses in high schools throughout the country, twenty-four log political conservative and lyric poet...
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...experiences are those that take place outwas twisted off and set aside to be used as When he can, Eliot reinforces stu- side the classroom is, in the long run, to explained in the recipe on p. 202...
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...students - by spending weeks of class staff" again and again, where Emily Post One guaranteed to stay with us is the time on how to operate tape recorders and and I would argue for "My staff and I." chapter, with twelve vivid photos, on how to load cameras - to interview their Although he mentions books used in slaughtering hogs: "Now the neck was grandparents and old neighbors about the 1967, he does not talk much about cut around the base of the head and history and lost crafts of their region - homework and getting students to read, through the throat so that the backbone like how to boil clothes in a kettle and read, read...
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Vol. 113 • May 1986 • No. 9
