Word: teacher
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jackson, Miss., ten-year-old Edgar Nation Jr. tore a page out of his notebook and scrawled a letter telling why Miss Aline Neal was his favorite teacher. Eddie said he liked Miss Neal because she "never sent any of us to the principal's office." In fact, he liked her so much ("and she's so pretty") that last spring, when Eddie was promoted to the fifth grade at Duling Public School, he asked the principal to promote Miss Neal...
Last week Eddie Nation's letter won his teacher a plump prize: $2,500 to improve her own education, a trip to Chicago to appear on the Quiz Kid program, and the title of "Best Teacher of 1947." Miss Neal was delighted-"not so much for myself, but because of the favorable light it places on Mississippi." Eddie was pretty happy, too: he got $100 for his heartfelt, well-spelled praise. The three judges (Northwestern, Michigan and Notre Dame professors) sifted through 33,000 letters, spent a day in the classrooms and homes of the likeliest nominees...
Like the spelling champion of 1947 (see above), Teacher Neal is the product of a one-room schoolhouse. Now 46, she took up teaching 24 years ago "because my parents believed it was the thing for nice girls to do," keeps at it now "because I love it." She gets $1,900 a year. (Teachers with college degrees make $2,900 in Jackson, but Miss Neal has not yet had time to finish her studies.) To get by, Miss Neal takes tickets after school and Saturdays at the Fix Neighborhood Picture Show...
...Hope (Ind.) High School was just about all that husky, greying Maridieth Little could bear. A month ago, he had suffered a heart attack, but it was not just his heart that made him hesitate about going back; it was the way the U.S. school, its pupils and its teachers had developed over the years. Last week, 51-year-old Maridieth Little, a high-school teacher for 17 years, a principal for another 16, gave details...
...trouble with many teachers is that they don't know how to teach. A good teacher teaches to the saturation point but not beyond it. But this is a lost...