Word: teachers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...That, I can believe, is true," Mrs. Edna Baldwin, 58 year old teacher of the University of Michigan, says in support...
...Teacher's Quality. Gradually, Braithwaite and his class learned mutual respect. The students' "sir"' became less forced, and the teacher's prejudices began to break down as he found a few quick, honest minds among the slum children. Progress was not smooth: Braithwaite was forced to outslug the class troublemaker, a hulking amateur boxer, and habitual bigotry cut through newly learned tolerance when the class refused to take flowers to the house of a Negro boy whose white mother had died. (Tolerance ultimately won, and the entire class showed up for the funeral...
What the book suggests is that the quality of the teacher is far more important than the strictness, or permissiveness of the school. A system that ignores the worst kind of profanity in the classroom, and that encourages children to write corrosively candid weekly reports on their teachers, does not sound promising. But for Born Teacher Braithwaite it worked very well. When the tough-kid class graduated, its gift to Braithwaite was inscribed: "To Sir, with Love...
...even before she moved to the Bolshoi Company in 1944. Born in St. Petersburg in 1910, she was introduced to the dance early: her father, Sergei Ulanov, was a member of the corps at the famed Mariinsky (now Kirov) Theater, and her mother, Maria Romanova, a Mariinsky soloist and teacher at the St. Petersburg Ballet School. At first Galina had no desire to dance, and she recalls "crying bitterly with fear" when she was first taken to the Mariinsky school when she was 9. Her father, Galina recalls, had wanted a boy, and since there were no other children...
Summers, Percy clerked at Bell & Howell for $16 to $20 a week, caught the eye of benevolently despotic President Joseph McNabb, Percy's onetime Sunday school teacher. McNabb offered Percy his pick of jobs upon graduation, and Percy chose to take charge of B. & H.'s tiny defense production. Within months the U.S. went to war, and Percy at 21 was bossing B. & H.'s biggest endeavor. McNabb, who made all the company's decisions, placed Percy on the board at 23. After 35 months in the Navy (up from apprentice seaman to lieutenant), Percy became...