This book is concerned with the strivings, satisfactions, hopes, and heartaches that pervade the teacher's life and work. It is based in part on a study of more than 1000 teachers and students of education.

"Professor Jersild writes with disarming lucidity about many abstruse conceptions. He has the courage to discuss forthrightly important topics that are generally skirted in discussions about education. I believe that When Teachers Face Themselves will help any but the most recalcitrant reader to face himself more realistically."

—From the Foreword by Stephen M. Corey, Director, Horace Mann-Lincoln Institute of School Experimentation