By combining autobiography with cultural history, English professor
Howard Wolf takes us through the 1960s and up to the present much
in the way a personal guide would lead us through a museum full of
wonders. "The Education of a Teacher" traces Wolf's odyssey as he
discovers his vocation, from his own college days to his tenure in
a Turkish university as a visiting Fulbright scholar. The decades
unfold for us: the cold war, student activism, Vietnam, and a trend
toward student apathy all prepare us for the technological
immediacy of the 1980s. Wolf was and is a passionate participant in
the political, literary, and social events that have constituted
our recent culture.This is a collection of essays about higher
education and American culture that dramatises and humanises the
often abstractly treated subject of education. Howard Wolf always
tries to understand the classroom and the setting of his university
in terms of the larger currents of the culture and to make his
approach to literature and his students relevant to these currents.
Wolf's connections between autobiography and the significant trends
of our time enrich the historical record.
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