Word: teachers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pupils, Alain Rolland, 16, in the back of the head and killed him. Standing trial in Perpignan's sunlit Palais de Justice, Amiel was asked why he did not fire into the air. "It goes without saying," he answered, "that I regret not having fired in the air." Teacher Amiel refused to make excuses, would not plead overwork at the end of the term, nervous strain in trying to pay for his new house, harassment by the students. He said sternly: "A teacher can never have sufficient provocation to kill a child...
...students. Lecture courses offer too often only a cold commentary on the great works and ideas which the General Education program is supposed to present. Lectures, in literature and social sciences especially, if not downright boring, do not permit interchange of ideas between students or between student and teacher. Sections, which are provided to remedy this deficiency, are too often a waste of time; the general pattern is that the few students who are prepared conduct a dialogue with the section man while other students doodle quietly...
...Delivery. The son of a Phoenix College math and sociology teacher, Long began putting the shot in grammar school, started to show real promise at North Phoenix High School under Track Coach Vernon Wolfe, onetime University of Southern California pole vaulter. Wolfe put him to work lifting weights, had him study movies of O'Brien ("You might say he was a sort of hero of mine then." says Dallas). Slowly he mastered O'Brien's 180° body-spin delivery. Despite the fact that he was picked as an all-state tackle, Long gave up football...
Scholar Waterhouse, a chunky, sandy-haired young man, admits to a complete lack of talent in art and athletics but gets straight A's in everything else. Physics Teacher Morris Hoffman says the boy is "lightning fast in his thinking; a test that takes most students 40 minutes is a five-to-ten-minute affair for Bill. He never had a formal biology course, and quite a bit of the general aptitude tests are based on biology. He said, 'Oh, I got a book and read it.' He can see right to the crux of a matter...
...fell ill and went into a 40-day trance. During the trance, he saw visions, and later declared that he had talked with God and been ordained to rule China. Hung threw the graven tablet commemorating Confucius out of his classroom. The act brought immediate dismissal as a teacher. After Hung converted his best friend, the pair began proselytizing in Kwangsi province...