Word: teacher
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sister-in-law bought a piano. Because the promptings of that Genius told his mother to keep up with the Joneses, she bought one also. The thing had cost a lot and it was no good unless somebody learned to play it. So the Gershwin family hired a teacher for George, then 13. Came the day when he played for Max Rosen, famed violinist. Mr. Rosen patted him kindly on the shoulder, told him that he had better learn a trade. Another musical gentleman, who had been troubled by hearing his practicing, advised him to study in Europe...
What are reason for this prevalent attitude? Primarily, an inadequate supply of tutors cannot give lower classmen a sufficient amount of their time to rouse interest in the work. Personal contact between student and teacher in its true form is not a reality. Secondly, it is doubtful whether tutorial work which receives no credit, at the college office stimulates enough interest in that work to warrant its maintenance on a large scale. At the present time, a student's scholastic standing depends, throughout his college course, solely on his course grades. The average student is not inclined to do work...
...were peers or the sons of peers, 8 were country gentlemen or members of well-connected families, 5 came from the so-called middleclass: Addington, son of a doctor; Disraeli, grandson of a merchant; Gladstone, son of a shipowner; Asquith, son of a manufacturer; George, son of an itinerant teacher. The remaining one, Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, was born in the humblest circumstances, his relatives being fishers and farm hands...
...British newspaper syndicate and had the pleasure, next day, of reading florid obituaries of himself in the English and Continental press. He read how he, the son of a New England physician, had been born in Florence, Italy, studied art in France, painted a portrait of his teacher, Carolus Duran, which was exhibited in the Salon of 1877 and made him famous at 21. He read of the many commissions that were showered upon him from the month of that first success to the moment of his lamentable assassination by the syndicate's reporter. He ran his eye through...
...Although his work has been mostly as a producer, he is also a teacher and some years ago it was proposed to give him a position on one of the faculties of the University as a teacher in one or more courses...