Word: teacher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...either private business, such as insurance companies, or hopefully the federal government. If this program were taken up and handled properly, Harris says that "private institutions of higher learning could increase their tuition by $400 to $600 in five years." Such a program also would make doubling of current teacher salaries possible...
Reporter Allen's story is a shocker. Some of the things that strike a new teacher at John Marshall: a fulltime policeman inside the building; a teacher patrolling each corridor; students' coats locked up each morning so children will be less likely to run away from school; girls sent to the lavatory two-by-two so that they will not be attacked sexually. Allen taught English to "average" eighthgraders and two classes of ninth-graders euphemistically called "slow learners." Their...
...lout in the ninth-grade "adjustment class" threatened to "fix" Allen for waking him up in class. Other teachers called the boy psychotic; one predicted: "That kid will kill somebody some day. We hope to God it isn't a teacher." Said the dean of boys: "You should stop and consider the boy's condition before you wake him. Some of these kids stay out all night on benders and need the sleep the next day." Lapsing into the tone of breathless outrage chronic in newspaper exposes, Allen wrote: "I was stunned. Was this a junior high school...
...Many students there don't have the emotional stability, the mental capacity or the desire for academic learning." ¶ "Much of the classroom instruction is a farce, based on a philosophy that aims at 'just keeping them quiet.' " ¶"There is open defiance in the classrooms . . . Teacher morale is low . . . Teachers have been threatened with physical violence by students." ¶Most telling point: "The training in education I was required to take for my New York City teaching license was of little practical value." Allen, a journalism school graduate, had had enough English and writing courses...
...Education of Henry Adams is not the best place to learn about the education of Henry Adams. The "ironic hindsights" and "note of self-mockery" that dominate that famed autobiography were, in effect, argues Author Ernest Samuels, the verbal spitballs of old age that Adams was throwing at his teacher, life. In his projected three-volume study of the querulous Boston Brahmin of which Henry...