Classroom: North Ryde Primary School Museum More Teacher’s Memoirs Sometimes The Top Is A Long Way Away My transfer from primary to secondary teaching was done through what were called GA classes. The abbreviation stood for General Activity. It referred to a changed curriculum less challenging than the normal secondary one. I came from aContinue reading “A Teacher Never Walks Alone”
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Yesterday Is Not All That Far Away
Having Been Taught Go Forth And Teach Old age is not a preparation for dying. It is a time when your database of life should be shared. Wisdom doesn’t grow on trees. It comes best after you have tried the alternatives. Made the mistakes that make life such an uncertain thing. And if you areContinue reading “Yesterday Is Not All That Far Away”
On Teaching
Well here I am. Older than most – eighty-five to be specific. For fifty of those years, as a teacher, I helped people fashion their future. Now I’m in my own future, that uncertain time so dependent on whether you can keep on breathing. What now? Categorised by the powers that be as beyond myContinue reading “On Teaching”
Memories Of A Second Class Cricketer
A Good Innings III “Look after that shine please!” John Blomley, Brilliant Swing Bowler Attribution: Wiki Commons I have explained earlier, in my personal cricket narrative, that in 1958 I gave up my sporting ambition and returned to teaching. My appointment at a one-teacher school in the outer reaches of the Hunter Valley, with week-dayContinue reading “Memories Of A Second Class Cricketer”
Royce Levi Australian Teacher and Author 