Word: classroom
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...course ends back at Hanover with an optional ten-week literature survey, which most students choose to take. Throughout, Rassias insists that professors and apprentice teachers alike create a classroom situation that dispels inhibitions and keeps students excited about learning. Says he: "I ban from the classroom any teacher who is not 'alive.' A teacher of language should be in total command of the language, but he should also be a firebrand and an actor." That perfectly describes Rassias himself. For an upper-class lecture on the 18th century French philosopher Diderot, Rassias shows up in class...
...Bloody Zeal" [July 12]: What is it that the children of Belfast and Beirut have in common-besides the bloody ground they walk upon? Isn't it that they have never been compelled-by a power greater than their parents' prejudices-to sit in a school classroom along with "those others"? Instead they have grown up, nurtured by "their own kind," with the hardening conviction that those others-over there-are to be despised and, if it should come to that, destroyed...
Whether or not it is the daily regimen of five hours' classroom study and three to four hours' gymnastics training that has made her so, Comaneci is an extraordinarily somber child. Although she struts about and fidgets on the sidelines during competitions as if she were trying to release an inexhaustible flow of energy, she is almost eerily still outside the arena. While waiting to take her daily medical checkup one morning, she watched Olympic swimming heats on TV, her dark, unblinking eyes fixed on the action, her pale face expressionless, her hands folded decorously...
...Ankori rarely sits down while lecturing. Instead, he moved around his classroom, gesturing frequently and pausing on occasion to draw a map or answer a question...
...Dance Center is perhaps the Summer School's most ideal blend of classroom instruction and actual performance, of hard-core professional training and enthusiastic dabbling...