Word: teacher
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wrote Teacher Wera Mitchell in the monthly High Points, more a test of the school system that had "taught" them than of the students themselves...
...Torment, made in Sweden, the central character is a fine-minded, troubled boy in his late teens (Alf Kjellin). The villain is a pathologically cruel Latin teacher (Stig Jarrel). The provocatress of disaster is a loose girl of the town (Mai Zetterling) with whom the boy becomes involved, partly through sexual infatuation. But he is also concerned over her terror of a pitiless lover whom she dares not name but who, it becomes more & more obvious, is the sick teacher. Commencement time is approaching. The boy becomes ever less capable of study, ever more painfully the victim...
...reformatory the new teacher came to, but University School, for sons of well-to-do Clevelanders. Six years later, Harry Peters thought he was getting no place as a teacher, decided to try gold-mining instead. The school talked him out of it-by making him headmaster. This week, after 45 years in his first and only job, Harry Peters was ready to call it a day, and hand University School on to another, younger Yaleman: Harold Cruikshank...
...Teachers' Crisis (MARCH OF TIME) puts the pointer on one of the biggest U.S. problems-education. By narrative, charts and acted episodes, the film dramatizes the fact that, with public school enrollments bigger than ever before, and constantly growing, the U.S. has fewer public-school teachers than it had in 1939. Of these teachers many are pitifully ill-trained "emergency" amateurs. (The film shows the too common spectacle of a teacher unable to work a problem she has given students.) Still others are psychologically unfit to teach (the film shows a stupid teacher calling a pupil stupid...
...best as well as the worst teachers are fantastically overworked. Only about half those enrolled in state normal schools and teachers' colleges intend to teach;* there are graduates enough from these training schools to fill only about a third of the positions open. The situation is such that few but the timid, the incompetent, and those rare souls who have a true vocation for teaching can or will stick with such a job. The pay is disgracefully low (the average teacher gets from $800 to $3,100 a year). Socially, teachers are held in a special kind of contempt...