Comfort For a Recovering English Teacher

Dunseith, North Dakota, Frontage Road SW

My memory, like my father's, is occasionally creative. I remembered a someone writing that England's public schools were dedicated to the idea "...that Tennyson would never happen again...." Then, recently, I started re-reading a Wodehouse book.

"...It was almost as if these [English public] schools, founded in the 1830s, had it for their main objective that Shelley and Byron would never happen again...."
(Introduction by Wilfred Sheed (1975) to "Leave in to Psmith", P. G. Wodehouse (1924))

That both corrected my memory of the passage and, along with something my oldest daughter showed me, started me writing this post.

I'll get to that, after a clarification or three.

• "Public" Schools, Puritans, Progressives, and Attitudes
• My Year as a Teacher
  • The Curious Case of the Vanishing Counselor
  • A Student Newspaper and 'Problem' Students
• Making a Difference

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More at A Catholic Citizen in America.

(Looking back on my year as a high school teacher: the kids, who were okay; a counselor who disappeared; and reassurance that it all mattered.)