Master of This School

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 112208

Sherry wrote:
> 
> Actually, I believe that in England, it used to be common to call a
teacher master.  Even in the New Testament, when the disciples of
Jesus refer to him as master, it means teacher.  I don't know if it
was ever done the same way in the US.  I can't think of any literature
right now with a teacher called Master.


Carol:
Ishmael in "Moby Dick" is a former schoolmaster--that was the usual
term for a male teacher in America in the eighteenth century and at
least part of the nineteenth century. It originated in England
(according to Webster's 10th) in the thirteenth century. Ichabod Crane
in Washington Irving's "Legend of Sleepy Hollow" is also a schoolmaster.

Carol