Word: giftedness
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The Leaky BucketThere's no magic formula for what makes a good teacher, but there is general agreement on some of the prerequisites. One is an unshakable belief in children's capacity to learn. "Anyone without this has no business in the classroom," says Margaret Gayle, an expert on gifted...
Still, the feted Edinburgh society of the time couldn't get enough. Novelist Henry Mackenzie called him "the heaven-taught ploughman". And how the ladies fell for the rough romantic with the wicked turn of phrase. "There is no doubt about it, he was a ladies man," says Wilson. "He...
Boris, who was a scholarship student and an avid sportsman at the exclusive boarding school Eton, was always academically gifted. But his reports there expressed worries that he might squander his potential by spreading himself too thin. It's a habit he's maintained in overlapping careers as a journalist...
“The Great Debaters” concludes with a debate match between the small all-black Texas Wiley College and Harvard—shot in Sanders Theater. In the sequence, a debater from Wiley calmly but daringly calls on the mostly white audience to do something...
The "Two Americas" speech turned out to be not a closing argument but an opening one. It developed the rationale that Edwards' candidacy had been lacking, one that couldn't be found in the 60-page booklet of plans and proposals that he had put out as a counterargument to...