Word: teachers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...teacher of composition, she is exacting, enthusiastic and compelling. She likes to absorb her pupils' lives completely, is apt to beguile them into carrying her packages, ask them to drive her car, or come in the middle of the night to do copying for her. Students either enter into the spirit of things or leave. Nadia Boulanger is a classicist who regards classicism as an attitude and a discipline, rather than a slavish conformity to formula. Says she: "Great art likes chains. The greatest artists have created art within bounds. Or else they have created their own chains...
Twenty-six kindergarten kids at New York City's P.S. 90 got off their views on war & peace to U.N. Delegate Warren Austin (who promised to ponder them). Teacher Alma Haring, who sent him the message; set it all down just the way they told her..Excerpts...
...curriculum was too tough for many of the boys & girls, whose tested I.Q. averaged only 100. (The local gag was that anybody who couldn't make the grade in school could always get a job at the Los Alamos labs that paid more than teacher got.) And as Los Alamos expanded, more & more schoolkids were the children of maintenance men, carpenters, shopkeepers and other nonscientists, who wanted more vocational courses and a more "progressive" education...
...Wegner did was to repaint the drab classrooms green, blue and yellow, because he said the soft pastels helped students to think better. Wegner also added music, art, commercial courses, home economics and industrial arts to the study program, introduced self-government in the classrooms. At Los Alamos, teacher and students sit in a semicircle, with one of the students acting as "chairman" of the classroom discussion (it's less autocratic, Wegner says, than to have the teacher out in front "dictating" to his class...
...then, too, FitzGerald had begun to wonder if his lonely, esthetical life were not a huge mistake-"[a] seedy dullness ... a ... total failure and mess." He proceeded to complete the mess by marrying a gaunt Sunday-school teacher. "Lucy Barton," says tactful Biographer Terhune, "was doubtless attractive; but she lacked physical charm." "I am going to be married -don't congratulate me," the bridegroom told a friend. He turned up at church in "an old slouch hat," spoke only once at the wedding breakfast. Offered some blanc mange, he waved it away, muttering "Ugh! Congealed bridesmaid...