The Perfect Timetable: A Teacher's Memoir

Have you ever wondered about the life of your favourite teacher?

What did he really think? What inspired him? Who was he really?

Mervyn Pryer began teaching in 1939 at age 19. He taught in NSW Small Schools for 41 years.

Of all the small schools in which he taught, only one remains today. It is of an era passed about which he writes. A time when young teachers were sent to isolated villages consisting of few houses and a building freezing in winter and stifling in summer, to teach the local ch...