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Teacher Accused: Life. Gogol was born in Velikiye Sorochintsy, near Mirgorod, in the Ukrainian province of Poltava, on March 20 (New Style, April 1), 1809, and grew up on his parents' country estate. His father, a powerful influence on the boy, wrote plays, poems, and sketches in Ukrainian. Even while in high school, where he painted, acted, and began to write, Gogol's sympathy for the unjustly oppressed caused him to testify boldly in behalf of a teacher accused of freethinking.
After a few days the teacher noted that Eleanor was fairly comfortable in school and was happy to talk about the games she was playing. The teacher noted: 'Eleanor enthusiastically told me the names she had given to all the plastic play people/
After about a week Eleanor began to greet the teacher when they met in the morning and she usually had some news to report. The teacher felt that this was a good sign that Eleanor was settling in well.
Should a child love his teacher? Yes, if "love" is taken to mean a warm, constructive relation in which the child is truly valued and helped to develop his best potentialities. No, if it means a relationship that is intense and meets the emotional needs of the teacher at the expense of the child. A teacher's strong personal affection for one child may lead to favoritism, which children keenly resent. Or it may make the child oversensitive to the teacher's opinion. |
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