Word: teachers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thompson: Quartet No. 1 (Guilet String Quartet; Concert Hall Society, 6 sides). A good quartet; Harvard's Randall Thompson is full of the flavor and drive of the U.S. - but also owes a little to his teacher, Ernest Bloch. Performance and recording (on Vinylite): excellent...
...bridge is in danger of falling, she thinks, because one of its chief supports, the teacher, is badly undermined. "People think of a teacher as a devoted, cultured spinster who expects nothing in return . . . or some unmarried, retiring don who needs only enough to buy his port. Why, they pay their secretaries more than my top teachers...
...Dolls & Baby-Sitters. Trying to keep a child happy nn bed is a big order. An occupational therapist calls around to give lessons in making leather belts, wallets, rag dolls, etc. The Board of Education sends a teacher for four hours a week. If necessary, the hospital furnishes drugs, lends bed, sheets and bedpans. For a mother who gets worn out with nursing, or just needs to get away from the sick child once in a while, the hospital sends a housekeeper or a babysitter...
...committee report stated in reference to Professor Joseph Butterworth, "It is impossible to conceive how the mere fact of membership in the Communist Party could in any way affect the competency of a teacher of old English literature...
...obvious that the admirable use of the due process has here been used to cover up a poor interpretation of competence. Adherence to a belief does not, in itself, render a man incompetent to teach. Only when he subverts the spirit of objective inquiry to a belief does the teacher become incompetent. And that condition can only be determined by the unique evidence in each individual case...