![]() ![]() Bill of Rights at Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio. The Rod Serling page at the online Dictionary of Unitarian & Universalist Biography (which features Serling because he became a Unitarian with his wife after they got married) offers a window on his motivation for writing this particular script: You probably haven’t heard that word anywhere else on television in the last 50 years. Clearly Serling did, and in a nod to educators everywhere, he actually uses the word “perspicacious” in a conversation between the headmaster and Professor Fowler. It is not uncommon for them to wonder if anyone has heard their endless lecturing, if anyone looks back favorably on the role their teachers had in a life replete with accomplishment. Professors hold court for many years and while the students change consistently, the lessons and the settings mostly do not. ![]() Subtly, you can…observe Serling’s respect for the teaching profession, a role he eventually played himself in Ithaca College in Ithaca, New York. 7 on a list of “The 25 Best Twilight Zone Episodes” (published in 2009 in honor of the series’ turning 50 years old), and offers this insightful observation: Gun in hand, he returns to his classroom for one last class…but this time the Professor won’t be teaching…he’ll be learning a valuable lesson in another dimension.Ī writer for Yahoo! places the episode at No. Abject and miserable, he recalls the endless parade of students that came and went like apparitions in the night. ![]() After 51 years of dedication to the boys of the Rock Hill Spring School, Professor Fowler is put out to pasture. But for the saintly and elderly Professor Ellis Fowler, this holiday will be more than just a temporary respite from Academia. The CBS Video Library describes it like this:Įxpectant students scurry about apple-cheeked, wishing one and all good will and good cheer as they head home for Christmas. The episode feels - in a very good way - like a hybrid of A Christmas Carol, It’s a Wonderful Life and Dead Poets Society. At the last minute, however, a collective supernatural visitation reveals that he’s wrong about this. In 1962 The Twilight Zone ran an episode titled “The Changing of the Guard.” It starred Donald Pleasence (in his first American television appearance) as an elderly literature professor who is forced into retirement and decides to kill himself on Christmas Eve when he’s overcome by the sense that his entire life and career have been futile because, as he sees it, nothing he has done or taught has meant anything, since (as he sees it) his teaching, which spans three generations of students, has never had a real, lasting impact on anyone. ![]()
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