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3 illustrations for an essay by Garret Keizer – Sept. 2011 issue publication, New York.
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The re-education of an American teacher.
“In the fall of 2010, after a fifteen-year hiatus from the classroom and at the unpropitious age of 57, I began a one-year job teaching English in the same rural high school that I’d entered as a rookie 30 years before. I signed on mainly because my wife and I needed health insurance. The reason I had trained to be a teacher in the first place was my parents’ insistence that I graduate from college with a trade, “poet” falling short of the mark in their eyes. It’s fair to say that I have never worked in a school with what might be called purity of heart, though much of what I know about purity of heart I learned there. “
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– quoted texts are a copyright of Harper’s Magazine 2011.
– drawings, linoleum cuts, photographs and texts copyright Raymond Verdaguer, 2011.