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...gave out his office key to students who needed a quiet place to study at night. And nowadays he goes to heroic efforts to keep in close touch with kids he got to know. Dan Porterfield, an ex-pupil, recalls that in 1983, when Healy had a heart attack followed by a triple-bypass operation, he and a friend drove to New York to visit him. Over a nurse's protest, Healy asked to see them briefly. He was in a welter of tubes and looked ashen. "I felt that even then he was teaching us," says Porterfield, "trying...
...October 10, 1931 editoral in The Harvard Crimson said, "it is hardly necessary to state that a personable tutor, one who has the ability to interest his individual pupil, will develop into a more human, more understanding professor, than a young Ph.D. who has advanced to the stage of an occasional lecturer, but who cares only for his own scholastic advancement...
...cello students in the master classes of Jascha Heifetz and Gregor Piatigorsky. He was also getting solid piano instruction at the University of Southern California from John Crown, who was important not only for his teaching skills but also for his musical lineage. "Crown," says Thomas, "was a pupil of Moritz Rosenthal, and Rosenthal was a pupil of Liszt! Liszt was a pupil of Cherney, and Cherney was a pupil of Beethoven! It's really fun to think that some particular thing that I'm doing, the way I put my hands down on the keyboard, or some musical thought...
...Grandma when he hires himself out to the richest, meanest man in town. Ahmed (Bora Todorovic) is a blustery gangster who will teach Perhan the rules of petty crime but will take a long time to learn how fierce are the strains of loyalty and revenge in his brightest pupil. Ahmed will finally get the point on the day he dies: his wedding...
Even if educators could agree on standards, there would remain the sticky problem of designing national tests. Computer-scored multiple-choice exams are efficient and economical -- typically costing $15 a pupil -- but they also encourage mindless memorization. So-called performance-based exams, using essays, hands-on experiments and the like, are better for promoting reasoning skills but can cost as much as $50 a student, according to N.A.E.P. Chairman Finn. Whatever kinds of tests are eventually chosen, educators are sure to complain that they are being forced to "teach to the test," thus robbing students of real learning and depriving...