A Nest of Teachers: An Autobiography by Edward Blishen - Hardcover
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SKU BS 19.11 NEST BLUE U-VG 360 SP1 PN
In 1949 Edward Blishen presented himself at a London emergency training college to be hastily converted into a teacher. During the year that followed, it struck him later, he was also being emergency-trained as a husband and father.
Set in the period when human traffic was on the move again after the long wartime hold-up, A Nest of Teachers is a rueful comedy of courtship and young marriage 1940s style. But above all it offers us the Blishen-eye-view - wise, funny and acutely perceptive - of the pains and pleasures of being a teacher - and what the author sees as the eternal impossibility of being trained as one.
Set in the period when human traffic was on the move again after the long wartime hold-up, A Nest of Teachers is a rueful comedy of courtship and young marriage 1940s style. But above all it offers us the Blishen-eye-view - wise, funny and acutely perceptive - of the pains and pleasures of being a teacher - and what the author sees as the eternal impossibility of being trained as one.