Mrs Roberts succeeded in getting under my skull
A red hot panegyric for National Teacher Day
Forget the fact that it’s Star Wars Day1; more importantly, it’s National Teacher Day. I’ve already sent you the moving exchange between Albert Camus and his former teacher, so today I’m sending something else. It was written by American novelist Thomas Wolfe whilst studying playwriting at Harvard, aged 20, and concerns Margaret Roberts, the beloved scho…
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