A Teacher's Tale

It was never in author Joe Gilliland's plan to become a teacher certainly not a college teacher and most certainly not an English teacher. But that's what happened and he's never looked back. In <i>A Teacher's Tale</i> he explains how by neither planning for nor seeking a life of learning and teaching lacking a syllabus or lesson plan he discovered that a life in academe lay in his path-a path he's followed for more than fifty years. <p><i>A Teacher's Tale</i> begins in 1932 with Gilliland's first experiences in schooling and concludes in the summer of 1955 just as he completes his apprenticeship and stands on the brink of becoming a qualified instructor in a small college in east Texas. This memoir presents a collection of stories about his experiences as a teacher and a college student.<p> A story of schooling deeply immersed in the arts and humanities <i>A Teacher's Tale</i> shares Gilliland's love of the university and how it compelled him to seek a life devoted to teaching primarily in the community college arena. Through this narrative he brings together a philosophy of higher education based on the importance of arts and humanities in today's high- tech world.