Men Who Teach; 5; Llyod Reynolds and William Geer

movies movies movies a national educational television this weekend men who teach presents to teachers from two different schools in two very different parts of the country and each with his own very individual style of teaching this is lloyd reynolds of reed college portland oregon and this is where human gears of the university in chapel hill the university of north carolina in chapel hill athens of the southern mind some say in the southern part of heaven regardless of that this was

america's first state university founded in seventy ninety three today fifteen thousand students press its doors many of them will know a teacher here a genial dr chips and a terrible <unk> hide who make them laugh make them rage and turned their lives upside down sometimes for his name is william m gear lecturer in modern civilization a part of it now i am most of them are long and where it in south carolina

but you say i know and i've been reconstructed because in my youth i saw put through a state a diet also the nets the occasion of that old sow mammy in their kitchen frying up chicken and all the slaves what being in the bottom saying in and working loving old master butcher that you know our laws or new red with mcconnell a setting wrong approach i not what tanking called the

core and discussing politics while a handsome young man from a nearby plantation gallop across the fields quite with cotton and the lane is upstairs looking outset because there are preparing for the ball it at night and you know what it was like at the wall that night while the happiest days were humming dunes and the doctors the nineteen eighties in that grinnell invented a coats were dancing with a handsome gentleman while doctors was a struggling on the banjo well it was like that of course we also reduce civilized patterns of great importance in our society many of them at the time were in obvious lie

the result of this was ultimately a business school irish in our country which we call the wall you know i mean no oil not like the latest greek bonds about the wall and the us understand as to whether these are accurate or not many people tell me it's awful so thanks it's kind of close to

my son we talk so sudden some as yet talks about neon demon in the center and the senate is saying no i admit that this glass that's how you get my mood in the morning i mean i have to admit that your letters is where is our self righteousness that tends to come with most interested in that were brought up in this white anglo saxon protestant culture it's only makes you realize that maybe this is the best way of life and they were not completely correct and everything make you question everything and that's where the guys really good about and yet he makes you question things that you never question before and i mean there's been a lot of a lot of things that you never question in high school you know i never questioned the vietnam war until i got to college i was france great you know joe molloy now it's an honest way audie

it i didn't know anything nobody ever told me anything that promise of democracy corps which judith krug you've done your reading and that's the key thing the corps has a heavy reading list from plato and aristotle to mark's and my office adam smith to roosevelt in one year it races through five thousand years from the birth of western part of the headlines in this morning's newspaper and insert into the school's grievance and circus that certainly includes oh ok wow look over there said no talking about wednesday at the beginning ms de geer loves to walk

the campus with its brick walks and its collection of almost every tree and shrub that grows in north carolina build your considers himself a missionary in a people's university a teacher trying to guide him in a migration from the two well remembered past to the dynamic present gear was a poor boy who before even finishing high school received a scholarship to the citadel in charleston south carolina in chapel hill more than twenty years now he is never forgotten from where it came i was born in a small town in upper south carolina paula jones will south carolina the town of about a thousand people and it was largely a rural shopping center in cotton growing country lam about his red clay and it in my youth in the depression it was a very poor area where the most

famous landmarks in the community was called the rage and was called the rage because the land was so paula it was said that nothing would grow except copies lee dumas which will grow anywhere those were depression days college was still only for the lucky and the few today the young flock from the red clay county's the pawnee woods the tidewater he's the little towns and cities which also south there is a regional culture and that here in moscow i know we have at least three major sub regions the sub region of the polls in the sub region of the piedmont which is the most industrialized in the sub region of the mountains you will find that insulated pockets in our mountains where the pool speak much as they their ancestors spoke in the seventeen century and the same thing is true of the coastal islands

many of our students come from rural backgrounds and produced some of our finest citizens what we want to do is to show them the urban industrial world of modern civilization not only in this country but in countries abroad that we are seven years and we southerners with pride but we are so those who fit into the mainstream of american life the daily tar heel is a lively outspoken student newspaper it's a good place to go to find out how the breakdown of regional ism becomes a generation gap associate editor john campbell comes from east carolina the old plantation section of the state i could go home and get in an argument really is an appearance about the last year and what it is that i get to university and i think it's good that they would argue about you

know if i if it fights flying philosophy he or his beliefs why it is so as opposed to discrimination and you know for such a good job of proving why we've had discrimination for five years and the sky is why we still have more people in the complex clan north carolina state and i think that that's handling this thing grow and i think that we need more people if they were here to look for the light make them work to appreciate what perhaps persuade him to come home more moderate it will either admit that when i came here it is a time i would say i was sort of military mind if i was conservative talk i think i figured out a long way to changing

my mind he opened my mind up more than anything else may be on my mind upside down into its eighth and he made me appreciate our other viewpoint and nothing else it makes them think about things they've never really hard to think about go for new year's course is aimed at freshman these young instructors once worked under and now they have their own modern civilization classes that and apply it to you with the seated agony that's about the most we can hope for in this sort of of course i think he and that's the thing that this course has been able to gain from its freshness now if you prefer you can go back to the horse and the new and the body but as the late i like to drive a mustang the charts the incumbent that us ally highway a little island industrial civilization and i think it put me a great deal and he said now i don't

feel any you know particular need to be dominating their authoritarian or anything i feel like i can use the same sort of techniques get the kids at ease and make them feel part of the class get their class discussions going using the same methods i sorta you know now only on the great clock worked to talk to talk to talk in the great rosalee and others and that if you would study nature you could just thought these relationships and these laws well they worked with exactly do they work with precision the universe was

predictable and if you learned its lawns you would learn how it functioned and this would be marvelous for the benefit of mankind as he faded into the natural scheme of things and so we developed in western civilization that grape plant that gray worship of the new god science and when i think of the lawyer i turn in the direction of philips and venerable of all and bob our retirement saying science science science and i feel that my devotion today are in better shape than they were and he does what he does well now whether this doesn't fit and often with it that the invasion of academia but nevertheless he does that

well and sometimes i don't know seems to have gone to the libraries and writings that they normally would not have read simply good of you to come back to class and argue with this year and try to put him in his place and i think that's really what he's added that matter would you agree with them or not i think it's called local la la la la la lola love that always make sure it does is good that is or else over both conservator and ensures and his doctors have left by some transgression is wondering you know i really what was the real significance of this but they inevitably you're going to react or the other and the great wig and take long island that brought all sunni allies in that lawless modern civilization

what would it mean for you if one person you love dies and you'll have that terrifying experience than you think in terms of a and a half million people die we made whole during roll all along all six thousand today from the far end of the gonzo almost in nineteen fourteen grew that saturday night in november of nineteen eighty but that's not the whole story i told the whole story because i was aware at the time i was a small boy the year was nineteen twenty so i got on my bike and i went to tom's story i always like to go tom stall because time was a

fascinating man he had been in the atf with thai should he had been to paris he had probably met the mademoiselle from almond he was a man of the world all all sorts of interesting things happened at almost all and that afternoon mainly raves there was a farmer he also been in the atf quick question the gay man and i was among the men standing around i was mad at the time they started talking about this elimination and i stood there let your homework listening to the whole debate one man said there's another man said this and back and forth and back and for these american people talk to each other about this crying issue all international organization what finally a tall who concluded the argument when he heard his fist down on the

counter and say well i'll tell you i was telling me what to do and when my fist at everyday grow all hill and danes as soon as that it's a way of doing things is that you say given their daily seems to endow do the rightness of busts and our concept of things no matter who we all those other people those who are in the play group they are on the outside they are different from we therefore they are wrong and we call them by ugly names they are and that obviously well bob area and

there he the wake island by even uglier names we call home chris law is my own for yellow as an ugly word yellow it all way color and he's also all true all of the terrible ways because they are the weak on daily yankee and of course they i call us rebels grace

education breeds incentive right so it grows student has an education and he's got the school education he doesn't make a lot of the efficiency i know i ask that he be retargeting which isn't until after going to a high school that you were they knew this was only is we did not a chance i think one of the problems or at both men working beside you even have a high school education i'd like some of men finished third grade why he'll impress in this there are some social problems involved in london so far money and give someone does because it

can afford to pay these places that saves baby's socialism and forced charity and stealing from me you've got to have a solution to the number one like i don't know what the other solution is unless we pour out money from the federal government because if you walk into a slum and i i live near washington and so i've been down in the slums before it isn't a pretty sight now how do you go about solving private private mean just don't have the money we've got the money now granted we got another half of america we are and whether we like we're willing to go fight a war to help some people living a million miles away from us why can't we put that money into the pockets of americans who need chapel hill has assumes more charming bit of those most interested in the southern part of heaven residents say with a brush for the booster joan but believing in any way the

power of data plan to pay down the pool is brain can cause but it is a custom for women with and stream side still students black and white have gone not simply to jail but the prison for nonviolent demonstrations for civil rights on the street and there's was politics things every

day i know you're too busy teaching and raising three children of his own is never had time to earn his phd in his wife betty who was chapel hill's librarian love pleasantly here how about the dogs and puppies dogs adults although they're still puppies they're not they're not going to be able to keep going for a while for a month so called gano someone who wants the bible were no interest in fact their favorite stories he had fled settling class apparently that he didn't want to be bothered at home of a classroom that he didn't want anyone to calling in asking what the assignment was a moral or there was going to be a quick as they could

see during office hours is a deficit you want to tell me at home and buy me out to dinner comic bailey and jailing pri the dough calmly a better science search then we played it the phone rang stevens said he has to hear your members say that we have a need to get bailed out until sleepily years and he said well i've just been arrested jailed without judgment there were a few moments when bill here is not talking with a student is also director of student aid handling loans and scholarships but in his office many heartfelt things come to the surface that have nothing to do with newer material aid where you know it really feels sure that was a very significant turning point in my life and yes sir it was at al gore says you know i want to at a

service academy before came to chapel hill my entire life i had been oriented towards the military and i think the main thing i got from this this conference with a lot of the long lines of of becoming whoa where myself was that that perhaps i was not oriented towards the military and then this was this was a difficult thing for me to realize because for twelve years i find it was very much directed towards a naval academy and i got to the academy and i was an academy i realize that that it wasn't for me but yeah i knew nothing else of wolf what else it was a lifetime i knew nothing else to go for we're going to use the identity crisis and i think has resulted it is may be very unhappy and i i just hadn't been able to sit down and do the work that i should do all my courses i

learn more and this past semester had been a true to my life but nonetheless i did not do well academically i think at the beginning of the semester i go for academically because i'm somewhat satisfied i think i know and it's mine and you and you and you when we both know this and they winnow that you can accomplish a great deal and all that remains is to decide the direction in which you are go three of mr diers former students now he says virginia most at chapel hill high school teacher so david man who returned to college after six years in business here and eduardo a senior from new york state everything about you know of course my impression of you when you came to israel that

will southerner had the change here at it it was like the main thing they just might be a little more of what i had been taught about the racial issue than about the general south itself and its southern bed beside is how it drastically change maybe the police maybe the major thinking main event they need make you think you know is going to get back to season of other racial issues and that was an interesting thing to play because of how has only grown in the class and a lot of most people in iran with the release of us and we came to one where you have to and they can appear just realized that you have to discuss the regulations astley impossible to avoid and that you could tell everybody knew we getting close to the subject and then and everybody is looking really weird states in the house that they get and there is a curious so great he became one that he told is really fantastic job at it again

is that without want to do a sort of relaxed everybody in the woods is now i don't feel that that mr libby and darren question i can see no excuse for a bloke was i believe that every class are ought to have its own excitement and that the student thought would be delighted with the content and that the teacher lot to enjoy the presentation i think that they exchanged between the student and the teaching of the law section like i teach when the student asked the question that seems fruitful and we pursue that question to its logical in early in a way that has meaning for the students in that class then we have had a successful moment and another kind of thing that did that really delights the heart of a teacher is when during the course of an hour and then the process of teaching the teachers seeing this audience are young faces want to

the light turned on in their eyes after he said something then you know you strike a spark then you know that the intellect has been moved then you know that what you are about as had some little success at that moment anyway fb i mean it's true

there is an art open to anyone it is for this reason perhaps universal art like reynolds teaches it and without his field his own life with meaning and the lives of all those he's touched like rhinos has been a faculty member of reed college for four years teaching creative writing the history of art poetry oriental philosophy even mathematics at the core of his were the center of his art the two and the weapon of a success the edge going in the middle distance portland oregon a few miles away from the reed campus across the willamette river it was settled by nineteenth century new englanders who named it for portland maine and they brought with them all the strictures of their own time and place

reed college however is newer it was fun and fifty seven years ago in his ideology is scarcely nineteenth century the founders of reed college understood that liberty is conditional with that freedom is a specific it exists or it does not exist academic freedom that exists at reed college for the student and the teacher this freedom has given them among other things a higher proportion of graduates receiving phd is there any other school in the country professor lloyd reynolds is world famous for his craft which is calligraphy wood in his profession which is teaching is more than famous he's a kind of hero for his insights in his capacity for genuine enthusiasm take him and his students far outside the normal curriculum which he knows to not only satisfy the needs of an average student he fights it's the relevance in his own cingular way and

those lucky enough to be his students discover they've made a friend for life was a rare request courtroom education and so beautifully and he's going to visit in the kitchen car engine and doesn't get a phd well and he's kind of phony but it is only a high school teacher well who needs to help our school teachers or babysitters and they're too dumb to learn anything in a hole this like a respect for the teacher is at the root of the whole pablo i was unworldly and probably is that we take the teachers says we really pro a private school or reduce the control of the truth and as unconventional things happened though if us troops going there you know slowing the class and movies required

courses in the state says to solidify this all the time if we have students of dollars because of the quality of the world because you never know and this why i love the place of the wine or bump which of three i could not teaching student's tuitions they win win dr the thing led to amara over the traces going in a completely new fields working entirely on the basis of the insights and we're leaving but freshman astonished mubarak saying some years ago he said when i was doing the sign said do you really do those letters i said yes and he said that there are lots of social watchful and of course i looked official call roman empire state

teachers are constantly telling me about how some chow and responsible arteries been introduced to determine our elementary schools in this area and in the high school's reason why the children would like this that they actually can live in a very short time right i found that lets local official in the words of this boy it doesn't look like something done with a ballpoint pen or a pencil it doesn't look like a child or a substitute for sophisticated letters sophisticated writers and when a child discovers how easy it is generally he wants to undo and then well lloyd has is it's so diverse and so diffuse linda reid is in the fight until you can't set it down in two days and days and season add them up and

get water levels at the end i mean you have you have so many different things combining at the fact that he he lives what he believes he tells you about on the things he believes in his lectures in his classes and he puts them into his work he makes them a part of all that he dies and by doing this he communicates this this enthusiasm this his commitment and vitality after he learned the so called pretty the approach script this is taken away from the third grade in a tremendous way and he makes all in such a way that even on the writing and move is difficult to tell the difference between an atm in all his talk to making a key in one stroke and speed has turned into a nice growth in fact many of the letters b affleck there are hard to recognize he learns in the first grade that in half

look for barrel and that this is the way that you know he knows he has since enough to know that those are good designs and that they don't resemble one another of the honeybee gets into the third grade this is the t and this is a half the ultimate showman to follow this tension isn't quite enough then he's confused is that barris and once he begins two daughters self confidence is in trouble he has been talk also that this is the g good i mean this is that's the tubal not resemble each other low and yet in the third grade this is g this is that they're too much like a miniature inexperienced for the virginia trauma and going from the legend will cringe growth inclusion of religion and commercial phone spelling is partly a matter

of remembering the dish talk or pattern or word makes and when they arrived there were not themselves as solo legible that there's no pattern to remember where they are they're disgusted with it and don't want to remember a letter doesn't exist in nature <unk> true even longer going to treat us to draw human feel here you can look in a full length mirror give some to pause for that does not exist in nature is human convention and consequently the history writings while honor combat through the history and soon formed to survive one can to hop on logic reason and says so much for the new top song beatrice in the project it makes some sense and those are wonderful cartoon look magazine years ago a little boy sitting in a preschool class looking very dejected a little kids are snooping

on paper and the little boy said i don't want to express myself i want to learn to read and write but i think in response to world war ii because i've always admired the man and the poet blue welsh read class of nineteen fifty four the things he taught me the spirit that that he he conveyed to me while i was a student read and it just seemed really appropriate for this particular book by iranian pawns to lloyd but the fact that was an inappropriate at college that was very very academic lloyd was the man accused of savings by you guys think your lip majors even the writers and everything but you don't even know what a book is he was from a book that's how the main things it

and here we are people are red five six books a week since we were ten years old revoking stripes at read and that it and he would shave us into realizing that we have no idea how this our forum was made in the simplest terms what kind of title is use what kind of paper is it stitched or not are homebound it is it fourteen about are not fourteen is there are fourteen sixteen or thirty two or sixty four a whole and so what he did he he was like the zen master in a western way he would bring you back to the actual absolute fact of the thing that you were going for the greatest secrets i think i'm seeing the teachers as having the ability to listen to students and to learn from

the corner but teachers like a fluid and he should know he doesn't know he should pretend that he knows how he likely to students need to be he listened and this doesn't mean one is talking down to them are really trying to please them that holman finds out what a student needs are and maybe that it's in order to fulfill those needs to do things their student or not to accept it that may mean changes in attitude it may mean a lot of hard work still has confidence in the teacher it's possible for the teacher who make some progress listening to the students listen to classes and trying to see their point of view in trying to see what their potentials are trying to see what they need at one of a simple secrets of teaching

wells knowledge of the orient is mark art buddhism zen into rentals classroom as in the east unexpected things turn out to be related he interrupts a calligraphy session to investigate the improbable relationship between calligraphy and karate three words which lawmakers and their school code in japan then ten shoe is then there's you know me and meditation the chairman if you nobody can surely they are cold war well what's going in fencing there is sort of a last word shoe is brash writing right with your

brush in other words there are three fires closely into away and it said that classes or those top one has amassed we want to be a master of all three oh to be a clear for a woman could become a master fence or it had to be a master of medications going to make any progress from the fuel twice a week professor reynolds delivers his lectures on the history of art approximately one third of the entire student body attend the biggest turnout for anything on campus it is here that leno's identification with his students and his understanding of them come together listen to him on the ostensibly the bitter brittle on what to do some hobbies this is

true i think this is something to be taken seriously that temporary i feel about this is going to become our marginal i'm far more certain <unk> school dropout or worms or wants to drop out of the courts and it reminded me of a bottle and of those areas because there were many groups religious groups like the family allowed to a desire to escape from the city and go back into the mountains and discovers her lie deal you told two communities where they could live without the molestation people of well political party motor cars song human services

many of the people coming to this country were members of these groups who resettled in the early days of such patriotic urologist people wouldn't recognize the church well i'm not saying this to discourage and people who are interested in the things i was before there's nothing useful for getting know there's a two thousand year tradition is not new that song it's a silent engine addition of two thousand years so somebody starts telling you and you're in business but as for the greatest hope of all is that no matter how bad things get there allows children being born they can all be trained to be human beings

and the teachers have been wonderful opportunity to people who try to reform society are very often just diverting you know energies into other direction which are just as evil or as anyone who can work with us to move hoping to build a point of view that may make a better world financial leverage utopian there's always going to be a great deal of the world i'm of the belief that it's possible to to make the world is better in many ways this is one reason for being a teacher present he's an angry man without being angry at people he's angry at the folly at the warriors in all he's got that good heart anger that know my blake have and down i honestly think he is a man of the statue when you play really without being sentimental about it the guy has made things that will stand as long as

lakes not my poetry but in in the calligraphy that in a way he he has to sign books and so on very strong i think there is a foe well as portrayed by portray and spiders forgery is as concerned with things real thing is partly due to the li li the beautiful teaching avoid reynolds he would not abide this so silly scholarly business someone knows how to find more books than somebody else i'll buy a certain oscar in the library were just meeting osama is alive or doesn't add anything to do with whether those he loved blake or not well as a well a poet would be flat and it's very very interesting that few people realize you use such a famous calligrapher but few

people realize he's one of the world's great lakes collar reagan blakey knows about the books begin to appear colin blaydon who is the oxford blue one volume blake was available about the time the faculty like drawing that you support and that heat marcia marcia you do drawings and paintings and illustrations and he has spent years ago and even before he ever printed the book when these two men you to combine these three yards the art of letters you are drawing them poetry to work my work at and they became my mentors from limiting collective the parts of the ones we're seeing where we are where we're going today and no other group seems to be able to stay where they can opt

into problems are and they don't do enough and they were singing the future when he's in the courtroom they're starting to go to college and corollas i went downtown one evening and the streets were fought from building to building women in white sheets the ku klux klan was burning huge cross from the courthouse here and that shocked me into an awareness of how complex social problems are and what a dangerous world it was we were living in and they were quite outspokenly against any sort of social reform in the name of being anti communist menace socialist they were against the catholics they were against jews they were against all

foreigners and to me this move that they were against everything that i thought america stand for consequently i tended to sympathize and those duties toward anyone who is a radical idea of the american scene cause i thought too many dangers movements were are going on and then we had the depression afterwards and that didn't inspire a great deal of confidence in our economic system a nurse or reduce suffering their nursing the streets and partisan crowded with unemployed men who had no way of getting any food for their families solely out social a little blake remarks were to you very real and shouldn't have both <unk> institutionalized religion awful it's pretty true but also has an appeal because i think the man's subjective

experiences are his greatest reality is that not exist without the ocean coming from the human spirit so anyone who can tell me anything about the kind of quality and i'm interested in it was like the writers' union was very small group or class i knew in college i was on the parched have small school publications <unk> much interested in that i've tried advertising lettering for about a year in nineteen twenty four or twenty five we do the rational creed and one thing that copy other people's of a game a lot because i couldn't

imagine spending forty years really talking baton rouge and that's a large degree in western large degree sweater can root have found injunction book and then just turn the page there it says that enough of those one should learn the current queen pen writers wear to resist rubio for that matter unfortunately in our teachers colleges chosen not told about the history of rising there are nearly half of that on the new rules the new rules are times russian field there's an offense to them and rose to her studio for that reason for mormons count on their fingers there are three i's our region with drawings of three fingers in fact it

was not ivy for for four months he drew forefingers the chinese opponent fingered on horizontal went for one year to two fingers three three fingers the chinese for there's an interesting character is the square of burt's bees southwest the winner is fraying the summer in the arm for statements along it has these markets today which originally aired in northeast that fall three thousand west northwest fiber is still more fascinating there is the sky or the heavens square everest again but now into schools and anonymous center isn't a dimension which is not visible but is indicated by adam stroke here and here's a groan on the historic figure if i could be flown within that structure of prisoners they're

accounting for karen look at the figures which we call arabic which originally came from india this is certainly a finger held territory two was originally two fingers and then her hand clenched around corners and for a long time the two and then finally the two became more stable those straight days but these are the two fingers the three of all in the same way originally apparently was like the chinese character and writing and rapidly the hand stayed on the paper moon than wrong lose corners for originally where's the square of earth as it is in chinese they went through many many stages and i'm leaving many of

them are low and the italian humanist took before they can determine the paper and made an announcement if you turn at about forty five degrees to soothe the square roots is their and this is really convenient an er school for his children or talk really has no historical precedent always wherever of his arm in there because this is a heroine and it really is not for this for it to be taught just as easily as much more handsome has some meaning it said there are foreign is a picture of the hand of the fittest no one and if this is done here but as i said it could have come out of that the roman five is a handheld so long she's only his fingers and profile understand as

the roman figures originally went out letters of the alphabet are all bought or a deer grows and as the roman five foot to the handle into homes were put together into one hand beneath the other you're going to lose more and the curious thing about this roman extra term is that in chinese this is ten or so they are the most important of probably a lot of inventions of the indians in regard to that system rules and the exciting thing about that is that you know we have ten figures we have only nine digits so we can find out in about a nine and this is a victory so that one completes a decade by a

beginning this year lowe and reynolds is sixty five mandatory retirement age but the school knows he will retire and he knows it and so he simply shows up and with his pen and his work will continue to nudge a little humanity into the somewhat impersonal second half of the twentieth century as he did to most of the first half fb is

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