Teaching

(384–322 B.C.) Greek philosopher who tutored Alexander the Great. [Gk. Hist.: NCE, 147]

. wise headmaster of Rugby shows his understanding of youth. [Br. Lit.: Tom Brown’s School Days; Magill II, 1039]

learned and severe yet kind master of the village school. [Br. Poetry: Goldsmith The Deserted Village in Norton Literature]

Bhaer, Professor

teaches writing to Jo; eventually marries her. [Am. Lit.: Little Women]

Brooks, Miss

(Connie) popular TV show features a harried Miss Brooks as high school teacher. [TV: “Our Miss Brooks” in Terrace, II, 174]

Chips, Mr

. lovable and didactic schoolteacher. [Br. Lit.: Good-bye, Mr. Chips]

Chiron

knowledgeable Centaur; instructed Achilles, Jason, and Asclepius. [Gk. Myth.: Parrinder, 62]

Grundy, Miss

Archie’s grumpy high school teacher. [Am. Comics: “Archie” in Horn, 87]

Hartsook, Ralph

backwoods schoolteacher has severe problems with boisterous older pupils. [Am. Lit.: The Hoosier School-master; Magill I, 373]

Hicks, Miss

history teacher, antiquated but wise, impassioned, and just to her pupils. [Am. Lit.: Saroyan The Human Comedy in Magill I, 392]

Kotter, Gabe

teacher of Special Guidance Remedial Academics. [TV: “Welcome Back, Kotter” in Terrace, II, 423]

Leonowens, Mrs. Anna

young Welsh widow, tutors children and women of King of Siam. [Br. Lit.: Landon Anna and the King of Siam; Am. Musical: Rodgers and Hammerstein The King and I in On Stage, 333]

Moffat, Miss

teacher in Welsh mining town. [Br. Lit.: The Corn Is Green; NCE, 2982]

Pangloss

character who taught Candide “metaphysico-theologocosmolonigology.” [Fr. Lit.: Candide]

Phillotson, Mr

. Jude’s former schoolmaster. [Br. Lit.: Thomas Hardy Jude The Obscure]

Porpora

famous music master of Consuelo and Haydn. [Fr. Lit.: Consuelo, Magill I, 156–158]

Silenus

knowledgeable tutor of Bacchus. [Rom. Myth.: Daniel, 213]

Socrates

(469–399 B.C.) Greek philosopher; tutor of Plato. [Gk. Hist.: NCE, 2553]

Squeers, Wackford

dismally ignorant schoolmaster, cruel to his charges. [Br. Lit.: Dickens Nicholas Nickleby]

Swift, Kate

stern schoolteacher, takes pains to encourage any signs of genius. [Am. Lit.: Anderson Winesburg, Ohio in Benét, 1095]

village schoolmaster

stern yet kind; the rustics wondered “that one small head could carry all he knew.” [Br. Poetry: Gold-smith The Deserted Village in Magill IV, 823]

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References in classic literature

To his life's end Wyclif went on teaching and writing, although many attempts were made to silence him.

But his teaching never quite died, for by giving the English people the Bible Wyclif left a lasting mark on England; and although the Reformation did not come until two hundred years later, he may be looked upon as its forerunner.

Thus their teaching and writing mark the beginning of new life to the great mass of the people of England.

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Morland was a very good woman, and wished to see her children everything they ought to be; but her time was so much occupied in lying-in and teaching the little ones, that her elder daughters were inevitably left to shift for themselves; and it was not very wonderful that Catherine, who had by nature nothing heroic about her, should prefer cricket, baseball, riding on horseback, and running about the country at the age of fourteen, to books -- or at least books of information -- for, provided that nothing like useful knowledge could be gained from them, provided they were all story and no reflection, she had never any objection to books at all.

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"Rebecca, I am afraid I punished you more than I meant," said Miss Dearborn, who was only eighteen herself, and in her year of teaching country schools had never encountered a child like Rebecca.

View in context

Surely in any lecture-hall, or in private society, such teaching would soon have been hooted down?"

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Father Prieur tells us that although some groups are urging the bishops to change or withdraw the WS, this is not necessary because the WS is faithful both to the teachings of HV and teachings on conscience as understood by moral theology.

A response to Fr. Michael Prieur's defence of the Winnipeg Statement

It's very important to recognize that there is a hierarchy of truths among our dogmatic teachings. Vatican II taught that even among dogmas of the church, not all have the same relationship to the foundations of the Christian faith.

Who's the boss? The editors interview Richard Gaillardetz

Parker Palmer (2000) builds on his theme of personal integrity, urging each of us to find our life's true calling by listening to our inner voice, our inner teacher if you will, and following its teachings to a sense of meaning and purpose.

What a long, strange trip it's been: identity, integrity and the scholarship of teaching. (The scholarship of teaching and learning)

Dissent in the Church today is often called Modernism, a term frequently used in the early twentieth century for the doctrine that the Church must adapt to the modern world by changing some of its basic teachings. The present dissent arose in the Western world in the 1960s, occasioned chiefly by refusal to accept the teaching of the 1968 encyclical Humanae vitae (On human life), which dealt with married life, contraception, and abortion.

Orthodoxy brings vocations

Like individual Catholics, Catholic publications must not take a cafeteria approach to teachings on faith and morals, accepting some while rejecting others.

A flawed stewardship

The Catholic Church is not an unchanging monolith--not even in its teachings on women.

Who says the church can't change? (Even when it comes to women)