So it was with some bemusement that the Canadian schoolteacher found himself in an oversized armchair, engrossed in a collection of short stories pulled from the shelf of the library he found here, tucked among the boutiques between passport control and the check-in gate for his flight to Montreal.
In a recent interview with the Hollywood Reporter, Oliver, the eldest of four children of schoolteachers, described himself as a child of the Thatcher era.
So it was somewhat surprising that the former part-time soldier and retired schoolteacher has found himself at the centre of a fresh homophobic storm, the like of which was the stock in trade of his rivals in the Democratic Unionist party in the past.
Mr. Schindler had always fancied himself a schoolteacher.
Unnoticed by all but a few, a retired schoolteacher has quietly written himself into the musical record books by composing more symphonies than any Briton in history.
Jude Fawley, an orphan (with a mysterious scandal in his background), is inspired by the village schoolteacher, Phillotson, to educate himself.
He graduated from Yale University in 1933 and spent a year as a schoolteacher before, as Price himself put it, "I had the extraordinary experience of finding out that I knew nothing".
Mr. Chávez, 48, is the child of schoolteachers and fancies himself a teacher despite his background as a paratrooper.
Ms. Torchon, a schoolteacher herself, protested.
In 1923, Scholem, changing his first name from the German Gerhard to the Hebrew Gershom, emigrated to Palestine, where there was no university; he planned to support himself as a schoolteacher.
