Word: teacher
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...will be considered the most important figure in American art of the period since 1935" is an art teacher in Greenwich Village named Hans Hofmann. He painted this...
...found when I first stood before a class that the first requisite of a teacher was that he know more than the pupil. Some teachers...
...disturbing but kindly teacher, Agnostic Bode attracted such big classes that only the chapel would hold them. There, his long figure draped over the lectern, he would lecture with inflammatory enthusiasm. Sometimes, on fire himself, he would edge off the platform onto the top of an adjoining grand piano, to get more persuasively close to his hearers...
...progressive educator, he has little use for the willful children turned out in progressive education's name. He tells the story of one student who arrived at school bearing a note to the teacher: "Please don't strike Willy. We never strike him at home, except in self-defense...
Judging from the samplings in Unseen Harvests, students weren't the only unhappy ones. Stephen Leacock, who put in eight years as a Latin teacher before becoming an economics professor, recalled the unexpected meetings with former students ("Do you remember me," they always seemed to say, "You licked me at Upper Canada College"). More exasperating were pupils whose parents did their lessons for them: "I used to say to them: 'Paul, tell your father that he must use the ablative after pro.' " But there was always a bright spot, wrote Leacock. "It is the last...