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...help when a member of the audience is urging her co-star to kill her. For Julia Stiles, that unnerving moment came at the dramatic climax of the first preview show of the David Mamet play Oleanna, her London debut. She plays the student protagonist, who tenuously accuses her teacher of sexual harassment, and torments him until he snaps. As Stiles lay on the stage and her co-star, fellow Hollywood denizen Aaron Eckhart (Erin Brockovich, Paycheck) raised a chair as if to strike her, a woman in the front row of the Garrick Theatre shouted: "Do it!" Stiles...
However, Associate Professor in the School of Cartoon and Comic Art at Kyoto Seika University Matt Thorn disagrees. As president of the Parent-Teacher Association at his son’s public Japanese elementary school, Thorn has first-hand experience of Japanese cuteness, which gives him the authority to refute a cynical view of cute culture. He describes his comic art students as “talented and intelligent...as well as cute,” and argues that they do not use cuteness as a form of escapism...
...weekly meetings provide members teacher-training and give the separate teams a chance to exchange stories and management strategies from their respective classrooms. That support was especially welcome this year for one team, whose students posed discipline challenges CitySteppers said were unprecedented in the group’s recent history...
...construction of most human institutions, the painters carelessly overlapped their colors so that the borderline is grey. Suffice it to say that the only thing left for the analyst to do is to begin with the plain colors and work towards the point where they blend. The learned teacher must more and more render himself approachable as well in mind as person. The student must assimilate formal education into the unity of his existence and expect adventures there as else where. Meanwhile where the stratified process hinders rapprochement, technical amends are in order...
...students were born equal, so were all subjects. It was a system of laissez faire. Today progress consists in "thinking not of the course but of the student as the unit." Education is measured by the "character energy and ambition" which he develops; and, correspondingly, the ability of a teacher is judged not merely by his contributions to science, but by the inspirational and energizing influence of his teaching. Less broadly elective, education has become "a selective process." No longer the illumined parent but the illumined university says to the $500 boy; "Back to the workshop, back to the farm...