Word: teacher
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Leonardus strides into the class of 24 small pupils and delivers an imperial greeting. "Salvete, discipuli!" he booms. "Salve, magister," replies the chorus. The sound is an echo from Pompeii: Health to the teacher, health to the pupils...
...come-up' game," says Leonard, holding aloft a picture. "Quid est [What's this]?" he asks. Hands fly up. "Caseus est [It's cheese]," pipes a nine-year-old named Cheryl. "Optime [Super]!" praises Leonard, and calls the proud pupil up front to play teacher with a new picture. After a relay of come-ups, Leonardus leads a Latin sing-along of Rome Is Burning to the tune of Are You Sleeping, Brother John? climaxed by a fire dance with everyone shouting "Flammae, flammae, flammae...
Almost as soon as the strike began on Monday, the beleaguered board agreed to one union demand, promising to restore a 25% cut in medical insurance enacted just three months ago. The remaining issue is more contentious. Chicago teachers, now the fourth best paid in the U.S., have asked for a 10% increase, which would bring the average teacher's salary to nearly $29,000. The board is contemplating a one-year, onetime 10% cash bonus instead...
...second objection, voiced by one student member of the Committee on Undergraduate Education, over what he would fashion an increase in subjectivity in the Guide, is not well taken. The trend, over a number of years, to include more open questions and decrease the number of "rate the reading teacher labs from 1 to 7" represents an attempt to frame statistics in their proper context. To simply include more statistics, as Dowling suggests, would rip ratings from their mornings...
DIED. Bernard J.F. Lonergan, 79, Jesuit philosopher and theologian whose championship of rigorous intellectual inquiry as a means of revivifying faith placed him among the foremost Christian thinkers of the 20th century; in Pickering, Ont. A demanding and temperamental teacher, the priest was the author of two densely reasoned, seminal texts: Insight: A Study of Human Understanding (1957) and Method in Theology (1972). Lonergan sought to reshape theological inquiry in light of modern scientific and philosophical advances...