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Spinster, by Sylvia Ashton-Warner. A rage to teach fires some first-rate action about a child-intoxicated woman...
Spinster, by Sylvia Ashton-Warner. A rage to teach fires some first-rate fiction about a child-intoxicated woman...
Spinster, by Sylvia Ashton-Warner. The humor and passion of a middle-aged teacher, in a major literary creation...
Spinster, by Sylvia Ashton-Warner. The humor and passion of a middle-aged virgin, transmuted into the joy of teaching children. A major literary creation...
...barricades against mediocrity. The joy of teaching has seldom been more beautifully described than in this book. It seems only right-and not melodramatic-that Paul, a fellow teacher who respects neither the minds nor the bodies of his pupils, should blow out his brains. It is Author Ashton-Warner's view that teaching is a most dangerous activity, particularly at the level where the untutored five-year-old first collides with the civilized world. They may seem adorable infants now, but they are the whores and murderers of tomorrow, or tomorrow's saints and scholars...