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...through ten, classes are small (a 1-to-12 teacher-pupil ratio), and the three Rs are fitted to the individual. Most important, the teachers (all volunteers) come mainly from the overcrowded "600" schools that have handled milder malcontents for a decade. There they learned when to shrug off misbehavior, when to stand firm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Troublemakers | 3/17/1958 | See Source »

...minded but genial realist who coached track while president of Queens, likes to do carpentry and fiddle on the violin, Theobald combines a certain sympathy for modern educational theories with a no-nonsense attitude towards such practices as promoting all students automatically. "This," says he, "puts a premium on misbehavior." He has even publicly advocated placing incorrigibles in separate schools rather than allowing them to muddy the ones they are in. Though he agrees that the public schools must meet the needs of each child, he also thinks that "there comes a time when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Genial Realist | 12/23/1957 | See Source »

...usually, than the Student Council is of handling its own. The Administration realizes this, and keeps a rein on the Council when it tries to "really do something for the student body" by exerting control over another student organization, e.g., the Young Republican Club. The few instances of organizational misbehavior could be handled by the Administration quite capably and fairly without the Student Council...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dust to Dust | 11/21/1957 | See Source »

...their judgment of Sonali's misbehavior, many Indians could find less than no excuse for it.* Sonali sneaked out of the hotel once during the week to see a movie. The film: Anastasia, starring Oscar-winning Cinemactress In grid Bergman Rossellini. Ingrid, in Paris, kept determinedly calm about the Indian uproar. Roberto, however, came closest to unburdening himself when he told some of New Delhi's staunchest citizens: "I have fallen in love with India. I intend to become an Indian citizen and not return to Italy." The week's developments were perhaps best summed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 3, 1957 | 6/3/1957 | See Source »

...life." Police records bore no evidence of this one way or another, but they did show that up to three years ago, the self-appointed god of Mokhimpur had been a messenger boy in the Uttar Pradesh Department of Public Works who had been fired for misbehavior...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: A God for Mokhimpur | 2/4/1957 | See Source »

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