The Story of a Great Schoolmaster

The Story of a Great Schoolmaster

THE WHEELS OF CHANCE LOVE AND MR. LEWISHAM KIPPS TONO BUNGAY ANN VERONICA MR. POLLY THE NEW MACHIAVELLI MARRIAGE THE PASSIONATE FRIENDS THE WIFE OF SIR ISAAC HARMAN BEALBY THE RESEARCH MAGNIFICENT MR. BRITLING SEES IT THROUGH THE SOUL OF A BISHOP JOAN AND PETER THE UNDYING FIRE THE SECRET PLACES OF THE HEART THE TIME MACHINE THE WONDERFUL VISIT THE ISLAND OF DR. MOREAU THE INVISIBLE MAN THE WAR OF THE WORLDS THE SLEEPER AWAKES THE FIRST MEN IN THE MOON THE SEA LADY THE FOOD OF THE GODS IN THE DAYS OF THE COMET THE WAR IN THE AIR THE WORLD SET FREE MEN LIKE GODS ANTICIPATIONS (1900) MANKIND IN THE MAKING FIRST AND LAST THINGS NEW WORLDS FOR OLD A MODERN UTOPIA THE FUTURE IN AMERICA AN ENGLISHMAN LOOKS AT THE WORLD WHAT IS COMING? WAR AND THE FUTURE IN THE FOURTH YEAR GOD THE INVISIBLE KING RUSSIA IN THE SHADOWS THE SALVAGING OF CIVILIZATION WASHINGTON AND THE RIDDLE OF PEACE THE OUTLINE OF HISTORY A SHORT HISTORY OF THE WORLD Of all the men I have metand I have now had a fairly long and active life and have met a very great variety of interesting peopleone only has stirred me to a biographical effort. This one exception is F. W. Sanderson, for many years the headmaster of Oundle School. I think him beyond question the greatest man I have ever known with any degree of intimacy, and it is in the hope of conveying to others something of my sense not merely of his importance, but of his peculiar genius and the rich humanity of his character, that I am setting out to write this book. He was in himself a very delightful[Pg 2] mixture of subtlety and simplicity, generosity, adventurousness, imagination and steadfast purpose, and he approached the general life of our time at such an angle as to reflect the most curious and profitable lights upon it. To tell his story is to reflect upon all the main educational ideas of the last half-century, and to revise our conception of the process and purpose of the modern community in relation to education. For Sanderson had a mind like an octopus, it seemed always to have a tentacle free to reach out beyond what was already held, and his tentacles grew and radiated farther and farther. Before his end he had come to a vision of the school as a centre for the complete reorganisation of civilised life. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 64410
Author: Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
Release Date: Jan 28, 2021
Format: eBook
Language: English