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...been late. You have, to beg him to stop studying and go to bed. He even works out lessons ahead. He has started saying 'Yes, sir,' 'Yes, thank you,' and 'No, thank you' just like a civilized human being . . . One night he did homework until midnight and then rushed off in the morning without breakfast. I made inquiry that evening: 'What if you didn't have your prep (that's English for homework)? . . . What if you went without it?' . . . 'Well, the Head . . . would send you down to his study...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Transformation | 11/2/1953 | See Source »

...there should be a little time in the evening to relax and look over the children's homework, Mrs. Nathan M. Pusey considers this a slack day. Since her arrival in Cambridge early in the fall each hour has been packed with obligations, either social or domestic. "At this point, our outside interest is people," Mrs. Pusey smiles...

Author: By Arthur J. Langguth, | Title: First Lady of Quincy | 10/22/1953 | See Source »

...point of honor to balk at a language requirement simply because it is required. The genteel art of playing the pious but utterly bewildered student is brought to its highest perfection in elementary language courses. It is a useful art, for it well conceals the fact that no homework has been done...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LANGUAGE BLAME | 10/21/1953 | See Source »

...that, Huett turned himself into a kind of street-corner John Kieran, with a sign on his back: "Ich sage Verse Dir; Gib einen Pfennig mir" ("I'll tell you a verse; you give me a penny.") Customers have flocked to him: schoolchildren who need help on their homework, and adults who want the words of the latest song. Huett has answered everything from "What happens in Schiller's Joan of Arc?" to "Recite some verses from Wilhelm Busch's Max und Moritz," has even been known to recite a geometric theorem or two. About the only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Pomes Penyeach | 8/10/1953 | See Source »

...deny his ability and honesty. Tall, thin, with straggly white hair and a face as rugged as Norway's coastline, he is a dedicated public servant. He spends long working days in a decrepit old rocking chair at a big, flattop desk, carries away stacks of homework every night. He earns less than $5,000 yearly, lives in a small, unpretentious flat in Oslo, rides buses and streetcars, and does not own an automobile. His only relaxation is attending opening nights with his wife, a theater critic, whom he married...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORWAY: Voting Away Freedom | 6/8/1953 | See Source »

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