Word: teacher
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Engell continued at Harvard for graduate school, living in Leverett House as a resident tutor for seven years. Following that, he became a teacher, a decision Engell says he made with mixed feelings...
...teacher at Columbia since 1985, Delbanco received his Ph.D. from Harvard...
...went to this amazing class where everybody sat around and the teacher didn't say anything, and then we all behaved in a particular manner. People would keep quiet for the first 50 minutes, and then in the last 10 minutes people would all start talking. And then there would be times when people would decide to all go and meet outside the classroom in one of the nearby country-side places. Later on, at the end of the class, we'd read a book which showed that everybody had behaved in the same way that we had, and that...
...teacher recently told me that her seventh graders do not believe that "beating up" their classmates is wrong. After all, the 12- and 13-year-olds tell you, grown-ups always fight on their favorite TV program, "The Jerry Springer Show." Perhaps we should remember that Alexis de Tocqueville wrote, "America is great because she is good; if she ever ceases to be good, she will cease to be great...
Today the two are friends, and Kristol remembers Mansfield being "a tough grader and a great teacher...