Word: teachers
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...LEAD an ordinary life, doing ordinary things," says North Dakota Teacher Anne Carlsen in the understatement of the year. For the extraordinary life of the "Handicapped American of the Year," see MEDICINE, Handicap Winner...
...When Bowman started classes, "they sat before me like children and listened intently while I began the English language with the ridiculously simple statement, 'This is I, that is you.' " Suspicion quickly vanished; said one hard-muscled student as Bowman struggled to look professorial: "We wid you, teacher...
Stick to It. Bush teaching is not always that simple; Frontier College instructors have had squabbles with union leaders and with management, sometimes have to roar out lessons above the din of a bunkhouse card game. One teacher told Principal Robinson last year: "Many times this summer I've hated your guts." But the school has few resignations. Most teachers, says Robinson, "stick to it no matter what. The result is respect...
Frontier College operates on a tiny budget: $70,000 this year, most from private gifts, part from the Canadian government. But since 1899 it has taught more than 250,000 men-some of whom have taught a thing or two to the teachers. The Rt. Rev. Anson Phelps Stokes Jr., Protestant Episcopal Bishop of Massachusetts, who learned about Frontier College from Fellow Yaleman Ben Spock, was a teacher in an Ontario construction camp in 1928. Recalls Bishop Stokes (who answered to the camp tag, "Slim"): "I asked the carpenter boss, 'Can I have some 18-inch spreaders...
...walk. But as she advanced to college (St. Paul's Luther Junior College and the University of Minnesota), Anne found it harder to win acceptance than it had been among young children, and harder still to get the training she wanted to make her self-supporting as a teacher...