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...right to a 45-hour week. (Teachers, he says, average 70 hours on classroom work, pupil and parent guidance, grading papers, leading community activities...
...Peterson, head of Manhattan's Cooper Union forum and onetime Rutgers philosophy professor, served up this judgment in a unique anthology: Great Teachers, Portrayed by Those Who Studied under Them (Rutgers University Press, $3.50). Its 22 essays ranged from a profile of Anne Mansfield Sullivan by her only pupil, Helen Keller, to impressions of Ralph Waldo Emerson by James Russell Lowell...
Emerson, Anne Sullivan and the good and great teachers in between were all masters of the mental stretch. Near the top was James Mill, whose son and pupil, John Stuart Mill, tells how he began learning Greek at three and Latin at eight. Observes J.S.: "A pupil from whom nothing is ever demanded which he cannot do, never does...
Once Emily fired a teacher two hours after hiring her, because the woman told a pupil: "I just don't understand how you can have reached your age without learning this." At Opportunity, ignorance was always an excuse-if the student tried to get over it. In every room, Emily posted a slogan...
Pragmatism was pretty radical when Dewey took it up. Applied to education, it put the emphasis on the student-teaching must be adapted to the individual pupil, instead of making all study the same thing in the same rote-ridden way. As director of the University of Chicago's Laboratory School (1902-04), Dewey fathered the movement now called progressive education-"learning by living." Whether he sowed good seed, or tares, or dragon's teeth, is a moot question still...