Not Another Apple for the Teacher: Hundreds of Fascinating Facts From the World of Education - Hardcover

Erin Barrett, Jack Mingo

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9781435124028: Not Another Apple for the Teacher: Hundreds of Fascinating Facts From the World of Education

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ISBN 10: 1435124022 ISBN 13: 9781435124028

Publisher: Fisicalbook, 2010

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From devastating remarks made by teachers ("Addled, backward dunce," about young Thomas Edison) to tales of the rich and famous on campus (William Randolph Hearst kept a pet alligator at Harvard), this book gathers hundreds of facts about teachers and students. Some of the oddities included are that Gene Simmons, Kris Kristofferson, and Sting were all teachers before starting their music careers; some high school dropouts do all right: neither Henry Ford, Jack London, nor George Gershwin ever graduated; another reason to keep good notes: only small fragments of Aristotle's writings exist, and his reputation is based almost entirely on his students' class notes. In such chapters as "Educational Follies," "Words for the Wise," and "Life on Campus," this trivia collection humorously illustrates Mark Twain's observation "I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."

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