Teachers Lounge The Habits of Mind
Prakken Publications
ED021114
$2.95
From time to time, I encounter an occupation that makes me think
a second career would be interesting.But, I retired from teaching
almost six years ago. At this stage of my life, a second career is out
of the question. Even so, when I learn about the particularly interesting
work that someone is doing, I sometimes can’t help feeling,
if only I had world enough and time. . . . When I was teaching American
literature, I used to show my students the film Ordinary People
to set up a writing assignment after we had studied The Catcher in the
Rye. The assignment was to write a “revised” chapter in Catcher. In this
chapter the kids were to write what Holden Caulfield would have to say
after watching Ordinary People. I mention this, because every time
I showed the film, I marveled at the skill of Dr. Berger, the psychiatrist
who enabled the suicidal Conrad Jarrett to climb out of the emotional
pit into which he had fallen after the death of his brother.
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