“Permission is a gift no one can steal and can begin from something very simple. Teach them to sing. Give them the finest things you can find. Give them music.”
—Janice Galloway on Kenneth Hetherington, her music teacher at Ardrossan Academy
17 June is Thank a Teacher Day
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/jul/13/janice-galloway-my-hero-kenneth-hetherington
#Scottish #literature #music #musicteacher #teaching #teachers #ThankATeacherDay
Today they laid him in the earth's cold colour,
a man from Lewis with his seventy-five
years struck from his head. Teacher, scholar,
he had worked a true task when all alive…
—Iain Crichton Smith, “For Angus MacLeod”
Published in New Collected Poems (Carcanet, 2011)
Iain Crichton Smith, himself a teacher, commemorates the life of a former Headmaster of Oban High School
Today, 17 June, is Thank a Teacher Day
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #teaching #teachers #ThankATeacherDay
Today they laid him in the earth's cold colour,
a man from Lewis with his seventy-five
years struck from his head. Teacher, scholar,
he had worked a true task when all alive…
—Iain Crichton Smith, “For Angus MacLeod”
Published in New Collected Poems (Carcanet, 2011)
Iain Crichton Smith, himself a teacher, commemorates the life of a former Headmaster of Oban High School
Today, 18 June, is Thank a Teacher Day
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #teaching #teachers #ThankATeacherDay
Today is #ThankATeacherDay! This carved marble object, made in Islamabad in 1725, is a shrine to two teachers.
The two pairs of feet, carved in relief into white marble, represent those of Jinadatta Suri and Jinakushala Suri, revered Jain gurus of the 12th to 14th centuries.
The shrine is on display in Gallery 32 on Level 1.
👣 Shrine to the teachers Jinadatta Suri and Jinakushala Suri, 1725. EA1997.189
Ashmolean Museum
@AshmoleanMuseum #museums #teachers #etaching #Jain
THE DOMINIE EFFECT
#Schools & #teachers in #Scottish #literature
📚 Sorley MacLean & Iain Crichton Smith
📚 #ScotsLanguage in the classroom
📚 George Friel & Muriel Spark
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📚 Ross Sayers on #writing for #YA
📚 The Crime of Miss Jean Brodie
Image: “The Dominie”, William Stewart (1823–1906), Paisley Art Institute
https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2023/07/every-days-a-schuil-day/
Education and Literature are old school friends. With buttoned-up blazer and responsible shoulders, Education sits at the front of class, passing to its peers the tools needed to navigate the world that loiters restlessly at the gates. Literature, that wild-eyed dreamer, lurks at the back of the room, scars the desk with secrets and stories, […]
“Permission is a gift no one can steal and can begin from something very simple. Teach them to sing. Give them the finest things you can find. Give them music.”
Janice Galloway on Kenneth Hetherington, who taught her music at Ardrossan Academy
#Scottish #literature #ThankATeacherDay
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/jul/13/janice-galloway-my-hero-kenneth-hetherington
His best editions are some men and women
who scrutinise each action like a word.
The truest work is learning to be human
definitive texts the poorest can afford.
—Iain Crichton Smith, “For Angus MacLeod”
Published in New Collected Poems, Carcanet 2011
In this poem Crichton Smith, himself a teacher, commemorates the life of a former Headmaster of
Oban High School
Will Poulter visits
His sister for teacher day
Surprising the class
#willpoulter #guardiansofthegalaxy #thankateacherday #haiku #poetry
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