Word: teacher
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Portugal's literacy rate is 50%, one of the lowest of Western countries-officially. But since those who can barely sign their names are counted as literate, the actual figure is much lower. Despite repeated promises, Salazar, a teacher himself, has achieved little or no improvement in Portuguese education. Teachers make $12-$16 a month; few schools have been built-but Salazar lavishes money on the preservation of public monuments...
...Czech pianist, Rudolf Firkusny. Stransky said he had wanted to ask Firkusny's advice on a problem that had been on his mind for a long time. Was it too late in life for him to learn to play the piano? And where could he find a good teacher in Paris these days...
Anne Sullivan, obviously, possessed the good teacher's infinite patience, tolerance of repeated failure, and contagious enthusiasm. Woodrow Wilson, described as Princeton's "matinee-idol" professor of politics, had only the enthusiasm. Though he is included as a "great teacher," the former student who describes him writes that pupils were inspired by Wilson's intellect but repelled by his intellectuality. Because he knew all the answers, he froze most of his listeners...
...teachers, like the pupils, were of all kinds. The Russian instructor, a tile-maker by trade, had graduated from a university in Leningrad. Telegraphy was taught by retired Union Pacific operators. Emily herself had not had much formal education and played schoolmistress by ear. She thought it worked: "It's what a person can do and not the letters after a name that ought to count. I would take a teacher with a high-school certificate rather than a master's degree, if she had understanding...
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...