Word: teachers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...teacher with the funny accent last week told a Kansas City kindergarten class a favorite story she had brought from London, The Tale of a Turnip. In an "infants' school" in London, the teacher from Kansas City entertained her pupils with a U.S. nursery story about The Little Engine That Could...
...York City, 1,000 teachers in the past school year have left because they didn't get paid enough. A group called the New York City Teachers' Interest Committee polled 3,500 of the teachers who stayed on the job, discovered that three-fourths of the men and one-fourth of the women were doing sideline work to get along. Last week, at a meeting of the Teachers' Interest Committee, war veteran Philip Lynch, 33, who is a junior high school teacher of the social sciences, explained why he had taken an after-hours job. Said...
Asking for both qualities in all Mathematics instructors is like asking for the moon. And, of necessity, a permanent staff member--there are ten--is chosen primarily for his ability as a mathematician, not us a teacher. The fact that over half the Department's men may be adequate teachers, however, does not men that there is no issue. Saying that the problem is exaggerated is no salve to the many students who have had to step to the next higher rung of the ladder with only a foggy notion of how they get past the preceding...
...with research at long range, turning out graduate students for faculty jobs here or elsewhere. Experience in teaching will add to their qualifications and Math A is their only proving ground. The Department partially recognizes the faults of this system but goes not farther than trying to help the teacher get oriented. Again it is the student who pays. More of them could be helped by decreasing the ratio of teaching follows to annual instructors, which stands now at 18 to 3. In addition, the annual instructors could be selected primarily for teaching ability...
...Cross a Bridge. At Shrirampore, in a region called Noakhali, he settled down in a small, tin-roofed cottage in a dense tropical forest surrounded by ponds, coconut and betel palm groves and paddy fields. He dismissed his retinue of ipo people except for a stenographer and a teacher, who thought Gandhi at 77 not too old to learn Bengali. Often at Shrirampore Gandhi sang Rabindranath Tagore's Ekla Chalo (Walk Alone). Out one day for his afternoon walk, Gandhi tried to cross a bamboo-stick bridge, slipped and was saved from a splash by his teacher. Murmured Gandhi...