Word: teacher
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...assembly. Neill believes that it is impossible to be progressive unless the children govern themselves completely. The general meeting is presided over by a student chairman. Each child has a vote. The vote of a four-year-old counts just as much as Neill's or any other teacher's. All school problems are brought before the meeting and suitable punishments (for offenses such as excessive rowdyism or chronic stealing) are voted by a show of hands...
...unenlightened stopgap teachers reacted much like new children to the school's free atmosphere. They swore a great deal, were mean, spiteful and irresponsible. "Quite hopeless," says Mrs. Neill. No doubt they felt that they had a case. Says one current teacher: "Believe me, it is the hard way. Sometimes it is no longer possible to bear it. Then the only thing to do is to clear out completely for a few hours. The noise is the worst thing...
...street by veteran Chicago Impressionist Francis Chapin; a muscular tangle of nudes by Indiana's Earnest Freed, entitled Battle of the Sexes. First prize ($1,000) went to Cleveland's Dean Ellis, 27, for an encaustic cityscape which might well have been painted by Ellis' former teacher, Karl Zerbe (TIME...
...year ago, blonde Anne Waterman, fresh out of Vassar, was a little dissatisfied with the life she was leading. In Washington she heard a Polish Embassy official complain about the teacher shortage in Warsaw, and decided to help, because "I wanted to show my family that I could do something worth while...
...Warsaw, 80 Poles in tattered clothes now crowd into a dingy classroom at the bombed-out university to learn English from Anne. For nine months, she has been the only U.S. teacher at the University of Warsaw...