Teacher The One Who Made the Difference

Name: Teacher The One Who Made the Difference
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ISBN: 9780375708541

ISBN-10: 0375708545

ISBN-13: 9780375708541

Edition: N/A

Authors: Mark Edmundson

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In 1969, Mark Edmundson was a typical high school senior in working-class Medford, Massachusetts. He loved football, disdained schoolwork, and seemed headed for a factory job in his hometown—until a maverick philosophy teacher turned his life around. When Frank Lears, a small, nervous man wearing a moth-eaten suit, arrived at Medford fresh from Harvard University, his students pegged him as an easy target. Lears was unfazed by their spitballs and classroom antics. He shook things up, trading tired textbooks for Kesey and Camus, and provoking his class with questions about authority, conformity, civil rights, and the Vietnam War. He rearranged seats and joined in a ferocious snowball fight…

Book details

List price: $15.95
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 9/9/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 5.24" wide x 8.03" long x 0.63" tall
Weight: 0.462
Language: English