Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...commented, "we have not discouraged girls to think ahead in terms of education. There is a real need to build in them the curiosity, motivation, and enthusiasm for learning and service to carry them through the period when they must concentrate on their home responsibilities...
Carried away by their own enthusiasm, some children worked out in garages with improvised weights and muscle stretchers. The sight of the kids sweating and grunting began to make Muskogee parents feel guilty. Y.M.C.A. classes sprouted for men. Housewives did push-ups in their living rooms. Calisthenics booklets, furnished by an oil company, disappeared from local gas stations. To encourage the school program, doctors offered to give free medical exams. "A kid can be plenty healthy, but still not in decent shape," says Alph Stamphill, an elementary school principal in charge of the city's program. "There...
...changes were done with extreme moderation. These proved good tactics. Hunt built up a reserve of confidence and stability the facilitated later improvements. And when the improvements came, they were fantastic. The when the improvements came, they were fantastic. The old speech-making and back-slapping means of generating enthusiasm were still there, and by the time the job was done in 1953 Chicago had doubled its educational budget to $146 million, started a $50 million building program, raised teachers' salaries almost fifty per cent. In the end, the city gave Hunt a salary that was $7000 more than...
...Enthusiasm & Experience. The Peace Corps' youthful (average age: 24) teachers seem to make up in enthusiasm what they lack in experience. One of those with a classroom background is Dorothy Dee Vellenga, 24, who last year taught biology at the expensive Foxcroft school for girls in Middleburg, Va. Now she is in charge of all-male classes in biology and chemistry at the West Africa Secondary School in Accra. "It's certainly a refreshing change," she says. "The boys here are much more enthusiastic than the girls were at Foxcroft. They pay perfect attention, and you can hear...
Seeking the origins of See-Spot-run, Walcutt finds them in an understandable reaction against 19th century U.S. primers. Children then gasped through sentences such as: "The multiplicity of considerations subsumed under the intransigeant prognostications of enthusiasm is considerable." In 1838 Reformer Horace Mann protested: "More than eleven-twelfths of all children in the reading classes of our schools do not understand the meanings of the words they read...