Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other boys, among them the scholarship sons of dockers and fishermen, he will chop wood, build pigsties, sail, climb cliffs. The staple food is boiled potatoes at lunch and supper, and the school insists on "N.E.B.M." (no eating between meals). Average Scholar Charles will probably take the classroom work in stride, for Gordonstoun does not pretend to great academic excellence. Instead, it wants to give a boy "the ability to follow out what he believes to be the right course in the face of discomfort, hardships, dangers, mockery, boredom; skepticism and impulses of the moment"-useful training for anyone...
Continental Classroom (NBC, 6:30-7 a.m.). Tel ford Taylor, lawyer, writer, and a U.S. representative at the Nürnberg trials, speaks on American Government...
...past and future lives. Next, the compulsive Vernier must procure the manuals and textbooks for all the courses these students are taking, to bone up on them and to include parts of them in his chronicle. Hence at least half of Degrees is taken up with quotations from textbooks, classroom recitation, synopses of lectures, transcripts of homework, including mathematical problems complete with errors and corrections...
...order to explore his subjects' secret thoughts, dreams, and whispered classroom exchanges, Vernier extracts information from his colleagues and enrolls his nephew Pierre as a spy. In the first part of Degrees, Vernier writes from his own point of view: he is "I" and Pierre is "you." In the second part, it gradually emerges that things have been reversed: Vernier is "you" and Pierre is "I." But it is not Pierre writing-it is Vernier writing for and as Pierre...
...School. "I felt overprotective toward the serious student. This is no longer necessary. There is no more finger pointing, no more 'I'll get you after school' from poorer students. Our happiest students are our best students. The status they have in and out of the classroom is remarkable...