Word: teacher
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gulped up almost half the city's water and that one leaking toilet could waste a million gallons a year, the patriotic launched dozens of odd water-saving schemes. Restaurants quit volunteering water with meals; citizens had to ask bravely for it or do without. A New Rochelle teacher forbade her pupils to paint with watercolors. The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals turned off its 38 horse-watering troughs. Neighborhood snoops began gossiping about drips, instead of drunks...
...Stalin-The Teacher and Inspired Leader of the World Proletariat...
Fulton presented evidence from psychologists, juvenile judges and educators that the gory comics (Canadian circulation 5,000,000 a year v. an estimated 145 million in the U.S.) have a bad effect on children, rolled up an impressive backing of parent-teacher associations and clubwomen. The publishers unwittingly did their bit. To prove to Parliament that their books were really good clean fun, they distributed them to M.P.s Many were so aghast at them that they hustled to support Fulton...
Jones points out: "Teaching is not indoctrination. To analyze a theory is not to accept it, or to say that it is right, or to turn the teacher into a master and the students into intellectual slaves...
...precise and mathematical approach. He made out the course catalogue each year, almost as a hobby, for he enjoyed wrestling with its major difficulty: to schedule at different hours the courses which are most likely to interest any particular student, while at the same time not giving any teacher too rough a program...