English Professors

Just sit and imagine for a moment a classic British English professor.  He studied in Cambridge, he wears a tweed jacket, a cap on his balding head, a popped collar, or a turtle neck sweater.  He's a bit on the shorter side, and sometimes seems to be off in his own world.  He refuses to teach novels because they are too boring, but prefers poetry, and true stories.
He is a gentleman by creed, but has a dry sense of humor.  He went to boarding school since the age of nine, and always has to have the window open to prevent the classroom air from getting stuffy.  He points out our errors, and is quite delighted when we understand his analysis of a single line of poetry.

This is my English professor.

(Photo: English class outside, studying "This is a Man", on the stairs of Velic, our languages, humanities, and office building.)