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Editorial| July 01 2022 EDITORS’ NOTE Thornton Wilder Journal (2022) 3 (1): v–vii. https://doi.org/10.5325/thorntonwilderj.3.1.v Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation EDITORS’ NOTE. Thornton Wilder Journal 1 July 2022; 3 (1): v–vii. doi: https://doi.org/10.5325/thorntonwilderj.3.1.v Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectivePenn State University PressThornton Wilder Journal Search Advanced Search On the 125th anniversary of his birthday, we are honoring Thornton Wilder with this special issue on “Teaching Thornton Wilder.” As an experienced teacher, Wilder sprinkles cameo appearances of teachers across his plays and novels (e.g., Professor Willard and Miss Corcoran in Our Town or Miss Delphine Fleming, a math teacher in The Eighth Day). We begin the issue with Wilder’s own words about teaching, excerpts from a 1932 talk he gave at the University of Chicago. Reflecting “On Dejections and Rewards of Teaching,” he ponders: “Does anyone ever learn anything, or are teachers simply a tedious disciplinary catalytic agent in the intellectual life of society?” You will have to read the speech to discover Wilder’s answer. Judging by the submissions received for this issue, we are confident that teachers who wrote to share their experiences teaching Wilder are stimulating and imaginative “catalytic agents” of exploration and learning.Because... You do not currently have access to this content.