Classroom virtuoso recollections of a life in learning /

• Main Author: Cahn, Victor L.
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Education, c2009.
• Subjects: Cahn, Victor L.; Teachers > Biography. > United States; English teachers > Biography. > United States; College teachers > Biography. > United States; Education.; EDUCATION > General. > Teaching Methods & Materials; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Educators.; Electronic books.
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Did you ever have a teacher you couldn't forget? Someone who helped shape your knowledge and values, and so remains an indelible part of you? For more than thirty-five years, Victor L. Cahn has been such an influential figure. As secondary school "master"at Mercersburg, Pomfret, and P...

Table of Contents:

• Classroom Virtuoso; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; CHAPTER ONE: My Friend Millard Fillmore; CHAPTER TWO: Four Strings, a Bow, and Reality; CHAPTER THREE: The Universe and Dr. Cahn; CHAPTER FOUR: Formidable Figures at the Front Desk; CHAPTER FIVE: Academic Interruptus; CHAPTER SIX: On the Cusp of Change; CHAPTER SEVEN: Finding My Way; CHAPTER EIGHT: A Teacher Grows Up; Photospread; CHAPTER NINE: Reflections on a Way of Life; CHAPTER TEN: Confessions of a Closet Jock; CHAPTER ELEVEN: Professor; CHAPTER TWELVE: A Job for Life; CHAPTER THIRTEEN: A Man of the Theater.