Word: homework
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mention of books leads to homework: Where is it? When I finally asked one Sister why there couldn't be more of it (hardhearted mother!), she explained that hers is a split class: two grades in one room. She teaches one class in the morning and assigns 'homework' for the afternoon, when she teaches the other class. If I understand the procedure, some of our children actually attend school for one-half of the day . . . No wonder we often sense a lack of discipline when the children report the day's activities...
...Ergil had been my math teacher, I'd have eaten my homework just to provoke a wrestling match...
...order for me to feel a dignity in my work I had to accomplish something, and that something was to teach them math. I said I was very interested in not wasting my time. At first they didn't believe me. They were accustomed to not doing their homework and having the teacher say, 'All right, that's a zero.' But I made an issue out of it. I embarrassed them...
More About Everything. When some of his students refused to be roused, Ergil announced that he would wrestle any boy who did not turn in homework. Half a dozen or so of the huskier kids took him up. The slightly built (5 ft. 9 in., 145 Ibs.) teacher marched them to the gym, convinced them in successive falls of the importance of hard study. Ergil's qualifications for teaching, it turned out, included wrestling for his alma mater, the University of Istanbul. Other qualifications of Liberal Artist Ergil, now a U.S. citizen: two years of pre-med training, three...
...filmed shows from the U.S., the natives have rushed to buy sets for themselves, even when they know no English. After an armed forces transmitter went up at Asmara in Eritrea, Americans found their opposite numbers coming to them with a familiar complaint: the children were neglecting their homework and skimping meals because it was impossible to drag them away from the great grey tube...