The English Public School An Irreverent And Personal History

Author : Martin Stephen
Publisher : Metro Publishing
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2018-04-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781786069863

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The English Public School - An Irreverent and Personal History by Martin Stephen Pdf

Until his retirement in 2011, Dr Martin Stephen was High Master of St Paul's School, and before that of Manchester Grammar School, two of the most academically successful independent schools in the world, bar none. As such, he is uniquely placed to write a study of that extraordinary phenomenon, the English public school, institutions that are as admired in some quarters as they are despised and vilified in others. His book, however, is no hagiography, and pulls no punches when it comes to the author's views on the failings of private educational establishments, while also showing that their benefits can be, and increasingly are, harnessed for a much wider good. His own long and influential experience within that world allows him to expose a world that is rarely less than baffling to outside observers, and frequently reviled; his often scathing and satirical view of public schools make his book a must read for anyone who is thinking of putting little Tarquin down for Eton or, conversely, for anyone who would like to see the places razed and their ruins sown with salt. But, as the author writes, 'If you are English and reading this now, a public school boy or girl is influencing your life.' 'A fascinating and important book which explains how public schools have become some of the most successful schools in the world' - Lord Baker of Dorking, former Secretary of State for Education 'Martin Stephen cannot write a boring line. By turns utterly horrifying and hilariously funny, [his book] is also academically fascinating, and . . . a rip-roaring good read' - Jilly Cooper

Author : Martin Stephen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2018-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 178606877X

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The English Public School by Martin Stephen Pdf

Author : Tom Shone
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-03
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780525655336

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The Nolan Variations by Tom Shone Pdf

An in-depth look at Christopher Nolan, considered to be the most profound, commercially successful director at work today, written with his full cooperation. A rare, revelatory portrait, "as close as you're ever going to get to the Escher drawing that is Christopher Nolan's remarkable brain" (Sam Mendes). In chapters structured by themes and motifs ("Time"; "Chaos"; "Dreams"), Shone offers an unprecedented intimate view of the director. Shone explores Nolan's thoughts on his influences, his vision, his enigmatic childhood past--and his movies, from plots and emotion to identity and perception, including his latest blockbuster, the action-thriller/spy-fi Tenet ("Big, brashly beautiful, grandiosely enjoyable"--Variety). Filled with the director's never-before-seen photographs, storyboards, and scene sketches, here is Nolan on the evolution of his pictures, and the writers, artists, directors, and thinkers who have inspired and informed his films. "Fabulous: intelligent, illuminating, rigorous, and highly readable. The very model of what a filmmaking study should be. Essential reading for anyone who cares about Nolan or about film for that matter."--Neal Gabler, author of An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood and Walt Disney, The Biography

Author : Katharine Graham
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 951 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2011-02-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307758934

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Personal History by Katharine Graham Pdf

#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • PULTIZER PRIZE WINNER • The captivating inside story of the woman who helmed the Washington Post during one of the most turbulent periods in the history of American media: the scandals of the Pentagon Papers and Watergate In this widely acclaimed memoir ("Riveting, moving...a wonderful book" The New York Times Book Review), Katharine Graham tells her story—one that is extraordinary both for the events it encompasses and for the courage, candor, and dignity of its telling. Here is the awkward child who grew up amid material wealth and emotional isolation; the young bride who watched her brilliant, charismatic husband—a confidant to John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson—plunge into the mental illness that would culminate in his suicide. And here is the widow who shook off her grief and insecurity to take on a president and a pressman’s union as she entered the profane boys’ club of the newspaper business. As timely now as ever, Personal History is an exemplary record of our history and of the woman who played such a shaping role within them, discovering her own strength and sense of self as she confronted—and mastered—the personal and professional crises of her fascinating life.

Author : Samuel Orchart Beeton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1859
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:555066003

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Beeton's Dictionary of universal information, comprising geography, history, biography [&c.] by S.O. Beeton & J. Sherer by Samuel Orchart Beeton Pdf

Author : Jim Davidson
Publisher : UNSW Press
Page : 626 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Historians
ISBN : 9781742241340

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A Three-Cornered Life: The Historian W.K. Hancock by Jim Davidson Pdf

A biography of a 20th-century Australian historian and an outstanding scholar in the humanities and social science fields, this thorough account highlights the accomplishments of W.K. Hancock. Compelling and informative, this chronicle features the scope of Hancock's work across three continents, including his mission to Uganda on behalf of the British government in 1954, his tracking of British mobilizations during World War II, and his founding of the Australian National University. Illuminating an extraordinary life and career, this examination celebrates the author of Australia.

Author : David Turner
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2015-04-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300213133

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The Old Boys by David Turner Pdf

To many in the United Kingdom, the British public school remains the disliked and mistrusted embodiment of privilege and elitism. They have educated many of the country’s top bankers and politicians over the centuries right up to the present, including the present Prime Minister. David Turner’s vibrant history of Great Britain’s public schools, from the foundation of Winchester College in 1382 to the modern day, offers a fresh reappraisal of the controversial educational system. Turner argues that public schools are, in fact, good for the nation and are presently enjoying their true “Golden Age,” countering the long-held belief that these institutions achieved their greatest glory during Great Britain’s Victorian Era. Turner’s engrossing and enlightening work is rife with colorful stories of schoolboy revolts, eccentric heads, shocking corruption, and financial collapse. His thoughtful appreciation of these learning establishments follows the progression of public schools from their sometimes brutal and inglorious pasts through their present incarnations as vital contributors to the economic, scientific, and political future of the country.

Author : Chester E. Finn, Jr.
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2008-02-04
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781400828210

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Troublemaker by Chester E. Finn, Jr. Pdf

Few people have been more involved in shaping postwar U.S. education reforms--or dissented from some of them more effectively--than Chester Finn. Assistant secretary of education under Ronald Reagan, and an aide to politicians as different as Richard Nixon and Daniel Moynihan, Finn has also been a high school teacher, an education professor, a prolific and best-selling writer, a think-tank analyst, a nonprofit foundation president, and both a Democrat and Republican. This remarkably varied career has given him an extraordinary insider's view of every significant school-reform movement of the past four decades, from racial integration to No Child Left Behind. In Troublemaker, Finn has written a vivid history of postwar education reform that is also the personal story of one of the foremost players--and mavericks--in American education. Finn tells how his experiences have shaped his changing views of the three major strands of postwar school reform: standards-driven, choice-driven, and profession-driven. Of the three, Finn now believes that a combination of choice and standards has the greatest potential, but he favors this approach more on pragmatic than ideological grounds, arguing that parents should be given more options at the same time that schools are allowed more flexibility and held to higher performance norms. He also explains why education reforms of all kinds are so difficult to implement, and he draws valuable lessons from their frequent failure. Clear-eyed yet optimistic, Finn ultimately gives grounds for hope that the best of today's bold initiatives--from charter schools to technology to makeovers of school-system governance--are finally beginning to make a difference.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 892 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0618493379

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The Riverside Dictionary of Biography by Anonim Pdf

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Author : Paul Bae
Publisher : arsenal pulp press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-27
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781551528083

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You Suck, Sir by Paul Bae Pdf

Paul Bae is now a highly regarded comedian, podcaster, and the director of the Marvel Studios podcast Marvels, but he was once a high school English teacher. One day, during his student-teaching practicum, Paul Bae assigned weekend homework to the class. “You suck,” a student muttered. Mr. Bae turned on his heel, approached the student. “What did you say?” “Sorry. You suck, sir,” the student replied. Mr. Bae promptly returned to his desk, took out his teaching journal, and wrote down the exchange, which would become the first entry of hundreds of recorded encounters with students. Over the course of twelve years of teaching English, "Mr. Bae" -- or more simply, “Sir” -- kept several journals in which he recorded conversations he had with his students. You Suck, Sir presents the best of those conversations. Ranging from outrageously funny to touchingly poignant, these vignettes are full of heart. Paul’s stories are an irreverent, honest glimpse of teaching and learning and an inspiring peek into the connection one teacher has with his students. Both educators and anyone who has ever been a student will see themselves and their daily triumphs and struggles reflected here. You Suck, Sir is the latest title to be published under the Robin’s Egg Books imprint. Robin’s Egg Books features some of the freshest, smartest, and above all, funniest writing on a variety of culturally relevant subjects. Titles in the imprint are curated and edited by comedian, playwright, and author Charles Demers.

Author : George Willis,William Henry Schubert
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1991-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 0791405567

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Reflections from the Heart of Educational Inquiry by George Willis,William Henry Schubert Pdf

This unique book discusses and illustrates the ways the arts have influenced curriculum inquiry and the teaching and learning process. It is divided into two parts. The first part focuses on aesthetic, epistemological, ethical, ontological, and political explanations of the influence of the arts on curricula. The second part offers personal accounts by well-known scholars who have been influenced by works of art and who have translated those influences into their classroom curricula and teaching.

Author : California. Legislature
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1866
Category : California
ISBN : STANFORD:36105007524981

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Journal by California. Legislature Pdf

Author : J.H. Lupton
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2004-01-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781592444939

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A Life of John Colet by J.H. Lupton Pdf

John Colet (1467-1519) was Dean of St. Paul's Cathedral and founder of St. Paul's School, London. Colet lectured at Oxford on St. Paul's Epistles, introducing a new treatment by abandoning the purely textual commentary then common, in favor of a study of the personality of St. Paul and of the text as a whole. In 1498 he met Erasmus at Oxford, with whom he immediately became intimate, arousing in him especially a distrust of the later school men. Colet's lectures on the New Testament continued for five years, until in 1504 he was made Dean of St. Paul's. In London he became the intimate friend and spiritual adviser of Sir Thomas More. In 1509 he began the foundation of the great school with which his name will ever be associated. This biography by noted Oxford reform scholar J.H. Lupton was the standard for one hundred years and remains a classic today.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1606 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : United States
ISBN : UOM:39015058392690

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American Book Publishing Record by Anonim Pdf

Author : Samuel Orchart Beeton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1542 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1859
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN : HARVARD:HN5Q8T

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Beeton's Dictionary of Universal Information by Samuel Orchart Beeton Pdf