A Teacher's Tale: A Memoir

It was never in author Joe Gillilands plan to becomea teacher certainly not a college teacher and mostcertainly not an English teacher. But thats whathappened and hes never looked back. In A Teachers Tale 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 hes followed for more than fifty years. A Teachers Tale begins in 1932 with Gillilands 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 experiencesas a teacher and a college student. A story of schooling deeply immersed in the arts and humanities A TeachersTale shares Gillilands 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 todays high-tech world.