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He did not have to “learn to teach”; teaching came to him naturally. Doubtless he was aided in this direction by the example of his father and the family traditions, for his mother had also been a teacher; MAXIME BÔCHER 27 nor were his parents the only ones of the immediate family who had been engaged in that profession. The standards of clearness, both in thought and expression, which characterize French men of letters and science, Bôcher made his own, not by a conscious effort, but through an inner driving force which made it a part of his very nature to find suitable expression for his ideas.
This was his first important geography lesson, and the more he observed it and mulled it over the more it piqued his curiosity and shaped his thinking. In the 1920s and 1930s as John was coming of age, academic geography like many social sciences was struggling in the face of received orthodoxies to grasp and define the nature of the social, economic, political, and urban-industrial changes that had spread over the industrialized world during the previous century. Geography had a long history as an Earth science in universities as a subset of nineteenth century natural science, or as a curricular element in schools of commerce borrowing from the universities of Europe’s colonial powers.
It can fairly be said that Bôcher never occupied himself with an unimportant problem. On the other hand, the enthusiasm just of doing things in mathematics—the joy of living, so to speak—gives to one’s mental work a momentum which carries it over the obstacles of disappointment and discouragement, when one effort and another fail to yield results, and along with much which is valueless for others there come, now and then, contributions worthy of a lasting place in the science. I will not say that Bôcher was without such enthusiasm; but he did not show it in his intercourse with others.