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  • Hardcover: 256 pages
  • Publisher: Little, Brown (6 April 2000)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0316854212
  • ISBN-13: 978-0316854214
  • Product Dimensions: 19.8 x 13 x 2.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
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As we look at the world of teaching from the outside we wonder not only what is going on but what we can do to help. Jonathan Smith takes us on his personal journey from his first days as a pupil through to the challenges of his professional and private life on the other side of the desk. He makes us feels what it is like to be a teacher facing the joys and the battles of a class. How do you influence a child? He describes how you catch and stretch their minds. What difference can a teacher make, or how much damage can he do? Should clever pupils teach themselves? What works in the classroom world and what does not? And while influencing the young, how do you develop yourself, how do you teach yourself to keep another life and find that elusive balance?


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Jonathan Smith is the author of WILFRID AND EILEEN (made into a BBC TV series) and SUMMER IN FEBRUARY (published by Abacus). He also wrote THE HEAD MAN; a series of plays for Radio 4. He is the head of English at Tonbridge School.
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars So glad I read this!, 4 Mar 2001
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This is a marvellous book. Every student teacher, every practising teacher - and every parent! - should read it.

This is not just a handbook for teachers: it's a life-affirming look at life. Nothing betrays a person's nature more than their creative work: Jonathan Smith must be a lovely man.

Beware though: it may make you feel (as I did) that you should immediately go out and train as a teacher!

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12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars AT LAST, A BOOK ON TEACHING & LIFE, NOT A TRENDY MANUAL, 17 April 2000
By Mr. J. E. Francis (Eton, Windsor, UK) - See all my reviews
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I trust teachers with a thorough working knowledge of student pranks. They are the kind who keep their eyes open and know what they're up against. And if that knowledge coincides with intellectual life and a sensibility which breathes poetry like air, then you can bet that the energy and invention of classroom pranksters has been chanelled into enthusiasm and interest.

So it's no surprise to discover that Jonathan Smith is the man who taught the novelist Vikram Seth, poets like Christopher Reid and Charles Boyle, the biographer Anthony Seldon, entertainers and actors, and even the oscar-winning maker of When We Were Kings, Vikram Jayanti. (Tip: if your kids are called Vikram send them to Tonbridge School.) But you can tell that this man is much more than a guru to the great and the good, for his real interest lies in the day-to-day faces which have confronted him, year-in year-out, from the circle of desks drawn round his own: the over-keen, the not-so-keen, the sensitive, the pseud-ish, the bruisers, the drifters, the thought criminals, the hecklers and the mutes. All the anecdotes ring true, and though he gripes and growls about the perceived dowdiness of teaching, he is never tempted to colour his observations from a phoney palette.

Confession: I can't bear the sort of book by professionals of any kind who talk at you as though you're an acolyte in a masterclass. But this is not the book of a patronising expert who expects you to take notes and memorise bullet points. What you read here you remember anyway, probably because it's really a story, not an essay - and certainly not a lecture. The fabric of his life is teaching and he opens his life to the reader - you hear a real voice and follow a highly personal narrative which is by turns contrite and celebratory. He doesn't know it all, thank God, but what he knows is compelling and persuasive - and more than a little humbling.

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5.0 out of 5 stars This guy is too cool!, 22 Mar 2003
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We were taught by Mr Smith for a collective 6 years (two of us) and can safely say he has this teaching lark down to a fine art. No surprises then, that this book rules! Go buy it if you're interested in becoming a teacher, If you've got kids, and particularly if you're part of the Smith Fan Club (ie. anyone who's ever met him!) What can we say? The man is a god, and not the phoney kind either! He writes, teaches, directs and above all inspires (he can also talk to birds)
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