"Учитель" - третья автобиографическая книга Фрэнка Маккорта, автора бестселлеров "Энджина пепел" и "Это я". В ней Маккорт подробно рассказывает о своих ярких, забавных и иногда довольно тернистых годах работы учителем английского языка в общественных школах Нью-Йорка.
Фрэнк Маккорт приехал в Нью-Йорк молодым, бедным и идеалистичным ирландским парнем, но имевшим американский паспорт, поскольку родился в Бруклине. Он не знал, чего хочет, кроме как перестать голодать и улучшить свою жизнь. В метро он видел студентов с книгами. Ему нравилось, как они читали, подчеркивали и писали заметки на полях. Он записался в Нью-Йоркскую публичную библиотеку и каждый вечер после работы в отеле сидел и читал великие романы.
Набравшись уверенности и решимости, он поступил в Нью-Йоркский университет и получил степень по литературе, после чего начал 30-летнюю карьеру преподавателя в государственных школах Нью-Йорка. Фрэнк оценивает, что за эти годы он, возможно, обучил 12 000 детей. Именно на взаимоотношения между учителем и учеником он и размышляет в книге "Учитель".
Школа Нью-Йорка - беспокойное, шумное и непредсказуемое место. Фрэнк считает, что его попытки контролировать и уговаривать тысячи детей учиться и добиваться чего-то ради себя превратили его в писателя.
Электронная Книга «Teacher Man» написана автором Frank McCourt в году.
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Язык: Английский
ISBN: 9780007318636
Описание книги от Frank McCourt
A third memoir from the author of the huge international bestsellers ‘Angela’s Ashes’ and ‘‘Tis’. In ‘Teacher Man’, Frank McCourt details his illustrious, amusing, and sometimes rather bumpy years as an English teacher in the public high schools of New York City.Frank McCourt arrived in New York as a young, impoverished and idealistic Irish boy – but who crucially had an American passport, having been born in Brooklyn. He didn't know what he wanted except to stop being hungry and to better himself. On the subway he watched students carrying books. He saw how they read and underlined and wrote things in the margin and he liked the look of this very much. He joined the New York Public Library and every night when he came back from his hotel work he would sit up reading the great novels.Building his confidence and his determination, he talked his way into NYU and gained a literature degree and so began a teaching career that was to last thirty years, working in New York’s public high schools. Frank estimates that he probably taught 12,000 children during this time and it is on this relationship between teacher and student that he reflects in ‘Teacher Man’, the third in his series of memoirs.The New York high school is a restless, noisy and unpredictable place and Frank believes that it was his attempts to control and cajole these thousands of children into learning and achieving something for themselves that turned him into a writer. At least once a day someone would put up their hand and shout ‘Mr. McCourt, Mr. McCourt, tell us about Ireland, tell us about how poor you were…’ Through sharing his own life with these kids he learnt the power of narrative storytelling, and out of the invaluable experience of holding 12,000 people’s attention came ‘Angela’s Ashes’.Frank McCourt was a legend in such schools as Stuyvesant high school – long before he became the figure he is now, he would receive letters from former students telling him how much his teaching influenced and inspired them – and now in ‘Teacher Man’ he shares his reminiscences of those thirty years as well as revealing how they led to his own success with ‘Angela's Ashes’ and ‘’Tis’.
