Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...They're so spirited this morning,' she told me outside. 'Their little personalities are expressing themselves. We do nothing to curb the ego.' When she went back into the classroom, she was beaned by an orange...
...unarmed combat,' " chides a teacher), and, having come into possession of some top secret information, they blow up their school with the latest atom bomb. From now on, St. Trinian's will be only a word-to be used every time a school window is broken, a classroom wrecked or an underclassman over-hazed. Otherwise, wrote Poet C. Day Lewis in a special dirge, St. Trinian's is gone...
...metropolis of New York City. The city, which stifles thousands of them in jammed tenements and garbage-littered lots, also attempts, with genuine compassion and real hope, to educate them and to fit them for useful, decent, even happy lives. It is not a simple or idyllic process: the classroom struggle for the minds and hearts of New York's young is as complex, as baffling and painful as the struggle for gain and survival which goes on in the perpendicular jungles of masonry outside...
...sense, the two struggles are not separate at all. The city's cynicism, its vast impersonality, its conflicting, multiracial prejudices, its respect for luck and ruthlessness are inevitably stamped on the minds of its children, and invade the classroom with them. Nowhere are the problems of mass education more dramatically evident than in New York City...
...stated his own position most clearly in his 1916-17 Report: "The teaching by the professor in his classroom on the subjects within the scope of his chair ought to be absolutely free. He must teach the truth as he has found it and sees it. This is the primary condition of academic freedom, and any violation of it endangers intellectual progress...