Word: teacher
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...being a well-needed break during the school day, gives children the rare chance to interact with each other. Because many kids nowadays go home and simply watch television or play video games instead of playing outside, recess serves an even more important function. According to Juanita Gibson, a teacher at Cleveland Avenue, when children are used to playing together, they figure out a way to handle differences. But now, when kids get into a fight, instead of resolving it on their own, they are liable to seek adult intervention...
...wears Moore's economics thin. He asks the same questions over and over. Moore bullies unsuspecting PR men and security guards, apparently forgetting how similar these representatives are to the laid-off workers Moore unquestioningly hugs throughout the movie. When talking to workers, Moore is a Sunday school teacher; when talking to corporate representatives, he is an attack robot...
...what? The guests come on the show voluntarily. The showcase of fisticuffs and nudity does not exactly stand out in the wasteland of our popular culture. And as for the kids, they'll probably learn more from Jerry's "final thought" than from their Sunday school teacher. (For the uninitiated, Jerry's "final thought" is a surprisingly profound social commentary that concludes every broadcast...
...bully pulpit, explaining the defense for affirmative action in a way that only a well-respected member of the academy can. All affirmative action efforts must also start earlier in Head Start, elementary, junior high and high school. More resources must be put to basic education and motivation, teacher salaries and basic supplies...
Rolihlahla Mandela was born deep in the black homeland of Transkei on July 18, 1918. His first name could be interpreted, prophetically, as "troublemaker." The Nelson was added later, by a primary school teacher with delusions of imperial splendor. Mandela's boyhood was peaceful enough, spent on cattle herding and other rural pursuits, until the death of his father landed him in the care of a powerful relative, the acting regent of the Thembu people. But it was only after he left the missionary College of Fort Hare, where he had become involved in student protests against the white colonial...