Word: teacher
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When English Teacher George N. Allen quit his job at Brooklyn's slum-sick John Marshall Junior High School and unmasked himself as a crusading New York World Telegram & Sun reporter (TIME, Nov. 24), he sweetened his exposé with the promise that the $490 he had earned teaching would be turned over to a teachers' retirement fund. But the New York City Board of Education refused to act like a grateful teacher. Last week, while Allen continued to churn out his lively eyewitnesser under such headlines as "HEY, TEACH . . ." is SIGNAL FOR BEDLAM and SLOW PUPILS CHEATED...
...board resolved that Allen's series "seriously violates the moral and ethical standards of the teaching profession." The horrified educators deplored: "The effect upon children of learning that [Allen] was in fact a spy prying upon their privacy and using the special privilege of the position of teacher as a vehicle for sensationalism; the effect upon teachers when they learned that the exchange of confidence between educators . . . can no longer be safely indulged in; the effect upon a community of the realization that the teachers with whom their children sit may be consciously concerned not with the solving...
...Henry Moore, who struggled for months over the ESC (Education, Science, Culture) of UNESCO, finally decided: "If you put a statue of a teacher reading to a child there, after a while nobody would look at it." Instead, Moore fell back on Henry Moore, vintage 1938, turned out a reclining, Swiss-cheese female, carved out of rich travertine from Michelangelo's old quarry at Carrara (see color). For all its massive ten tons, it fails of monumentality, is less successful than the reinforced concrete canopy behind it that Breuer and Nervi designed as an afterthought...
Another possible solution to this problem being considered by the Romance Languages Department is a part-time teacher system which is really little more than an extension of the present setup. The only ramification would be a separate course for those teaching fellows who want to go into elementary teaching...
Harvard then must find some workable solution to this essential problem or fall even further behind. A new theory now gaining acceptance is that the best elementary language teacher is a native of the country on which the course is focused. Such a man has a better insight into the language and will often do a better job than an American scholar twice...