Word: teachers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Underground" and "The Brothers Karamazov" is no longer merely the gloomy epileptic whose chief joy would appear--from a casual reading--to be vivid portrayal of dirt, squalor, sensuality and the psychology of the diseased and stunted mind. Instead he takes on something of the aspect of a religious teacher, not a theologian not a didacticism, but one who used as his text the Gospel story of the raising of Lazarus. He becomes rather the man who, having passed through a life of suffering and deprivation and a decade of hell in the Siberian katorga, returned without losing faith...
When he exhibited first at the English Art Club, at about the same time as Sir William Orpen, critics snarled at him for selecting "ugly subjects." Disregarding the absurd grounds for their quarrel, the critics were probably wrong. Painter John was not disturbed at their objections. He became a teacher of art at the Liverpool University School of Art from which he soon disappeared to live among gypsies while painting pictures of them...
Surprisingly soon after his mother bought the fiddle for him, Harry Braun met Leopold Auer, greatest teacher of violinists. Leopold Auer was interested in meeting the adolescent minstrel as he is in meeting all youthful violinists; he remained interested in Harry Braun. When Harry Braun was a little older he met Zinc-King August Heckscher, who gave him a $25,000 Stradivarius...
...story has been told of a young school teacher who stayed up all night at his class reunion, talking. At dawn he shook hands with his comrade, Charles Mclvor, and they pledged themselves to lead the South out of the "bondage of ignorance." The young school teacher...
Great teaching is rare. It is a divine gift. But, whereas the great teacher is a source of spontaneous inspiration to his students, there is no reason why the supposedly ordinary teacher should cease trying to inspire his students. Students are not isolerant of the man who is trying to teach to the best of his ability. And such men, those who are primarily interested in teaching, the college needs, for the time will come we shall find that, by avoiding the responsibility of the actual task of imparting learning in order to devote more time to meticulously unravelling...