Turner's memoir provides a firsthand account of the author's fifty-year career as a schoolteacher in rural America. He describes the challenges and rewards of teaching, as well as the changing educational landscape of the nineteenth century. The book includes anecdotes and observations on the lives of Turner's students and colleagues.

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