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...Barton, from Toronto, favors contemporary fantasies, steeped in rue and irony, like The Porcelain Man by Richard Kennedy. With his bemused schoolboy's face, Barton roams the stage, bending at the waist to beseech from his listeners the sympathy due this magically animated figure of China who-would you believe it?-falls in love but, alas, keeps smashing himself into pieces and being reassembled as a porcelain horse or, worse, a dinner set just before he can properly go awooing...
...Barton has a confession to make: "Sometimes I control a story too tightly...
...better, though as yet baseball players need not worry. Torrence, with a repertoire of some 450 stories, makes a living by giving as many as 600 performances a year. (Storytellers get paid anywhere from $100 to $750 a day.) Most of the storytellers have to hold down a job. Barton works for the Ontario Ministry of Education. Even O'Callahan keeps a base on the faculty of the Lesley Graduate School of Cambridge, Mass. But the shoptalk is less about any collective or individual success of the storyteller in the near future than it is about the price...
...Barton, a graduate of Harvard Divinity School, is now teaching U.S. history to eleventh-graders in the San Diego public school system. "I would consider working again in a Christian school," he says, "but only if I found one that truly cared about scholastic excellence, academic freedom and the Bible's principles rather than biblical legalism...
Throughout the history of U.S. education, as Lawrence Cremin, president of Columbia University's Teachers College, points out in a 100-year survey published last year, the pendulum has swung repeatedly between academic and religious values in U.S. schools. If, as ex-Principal Barton suggests, fundamentalist schools lean too far toward indoctrination and authoritarianism, public school educators are increasingly willing to concede they have been neglecting traditional values of character and citizenship in the classroom...