Teaching and ageing:
When the council arts centre down the road lacked a quorum for my writing
class this term, I said to myself Oh well, at 70-71 I can't be sure of
reaching young students.
Then I met up with a long-retired literature teacher, Tim, who told me he
has two classes this year, one at the U3A going slowly through the
Shakespeare plays they didn't read last year, and the other, which meets at
his house, going through The Aeneid line by line.
It was the interval at a symphony concert.
He had time to refresh my memory of Virgil's metre, with examples.
I enquired later of others and am told Tim is 89.
> "The toughest part of this profession"
> one of us said
> "is that we get older
> and they will always and forever
> be 18."
>
> God plays dirty because
> she likes it that way.
>
> kw/6-18-08
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