Tag: teaching

  • The muscular strength that it gave to my jaw

    My father was a sharp-witted, well read man who dropped out of a teaching job at Rutgers to support a growing family. Even in unpromising conditions, however, his learning instinct remained.

  • Synchronised fires

    In a Leipzig teaching exchange, I asked the class to respond to the writing prompt, ‘Things my father or mother never told me’. But this standard exercise has another dimension in a country where half the population was once spying on the other half.