He was still in his teens when, in 1934, he collaborated with his former schoolmaster Roger Hill — one of the important father figures in his life — on an edition of the plays titled "Everybody's Shakespeare," which was designed to shake off the dust of the classroom and get readers to put on the plays in their local gymnasiums, dance halls, or back yards.
He designed inflatable puppets of various characters from the story, including the mother and the schoolmaster, based on Scarfe's drawings.
The Church in England had now become a goading schoolmaster, intent on your doing as well as possible (though without any knowledge of the likely results) in those fatally important forthcoming exams.
I dropped in on a question-and-answer session with the "schoolmaster" of the local school for Indian boys, and heard him matter-of-factly describe their "typically Indian" lack of punctuality, ambition and modesty.
The New Yorker, October 7, 1939 P. 13 In the excitement that followed the sinking of the Athenia, one Canadian schoolmaster who had been returning on the ship to his duties in Toronto, retained his poise.
The son of Los Angeles schoolmaster, Hanson passed on the chance to attend film school with the Scorseses, Lucases and Spielbergs.
The narrator Tom Crick is a middle-aged schoolmaster looking back on his war-time schoolboy romance with Mary, a sexually adventurous convent schoolgirl.
He was at the very least an indifferent schoolmaster, but depending on which scholar you believe, he may eventually have been run out of the town of Southold, literally tarred and feathered, because of a pedophilia scandal.
With heavy responsibilities for his parents and siblings, it is remarkable that he nonetheless found time during the years as a schoolmaster to continue his own education and to start a program of research, primarily on differential equations and the calculus of variations connected with the works of Laplace and Lagrange (which he studied in the original French).
