Who is Ed Kascher from Do Black Patent-leather Shoes Really Reflect Up?: A Fictionalized Memoir and what is their importance? Do_Black_Patent-leather_Shoes_Really_Reflect_Up?:_A_Fictionalized_Memoir English & Literature Ed Kascher | Do Black Patent-leather Shoes Really Reflect Up?: A Fictionalized Memoir

Mr. Kascher is a world history teacher who replaces Mr. Blair, a teacher unable to maintain classroom control. The students are shocked to discover that this new techer is anything but a pushover. While the faculty finds him inappropriate in dress and general demeanor, the students begin to appreciate Kascher (now nicknamed "Smooth Eddie") for his teaching strategies and his insistence that students learn facts and develop opinions based upon them. Eddie comes to realize that "Smooth Eddie was a damn good teacher...Today I realize that he was the only one," (p. 180).