A teacher's problem, as diagnosed by the author of this book, appears to be that he is incurably middle-class in his ideas, economically dependent on continuing to be so, and yet socially barely on the fringe of the bourgeoisie. He suffers therefore, it is contended, all the privations?social, sexual and psychological?of his religious and moral ideology without the corresponding middle-class co...

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