Mother told me he was a schoolteacher but not a teacher at my school!
Less surprising is the large number of schoolmasters , top public school headmasters, college fellows and masters, and university professors.
Individual schoolmistresses and teachers in the academies and seminaries that proliferated in Alexandria during the antebellum period offered instruction in a wide range of useful and ornamental subjects.
Mother told me he was a schoolteacher but not a teacher at my school!