Word: teachers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...moment of the bubble-when the pressure on the inside of the car equaled that on the outside. Kliphuis slowly turned the door handle, which now opened easily, shot through the opening and surfaced. "You have to persuade the pupils to wait for the bubble and not panic," explained Teacher Herman Vos. "That's all there...
...well-off Cleveland suburb of Lakewood, Ohio saw no good reason last year to offer French and special science courses below the high-school level, as suggested by a band of determined parents. So the parents signed up a French teacher and two working scientists as instructors, charged pupils 50? a lesson, soon had a booming after-school program of their own (TIME, June...
...never saw a teacher or a classroom, but for twelve years Rosetta Schroder was a prize student at one of New Zealand's busiest schools. The daughter of a sawmill operator, she lived with her parents and sister near Mount Turiwhate in the rugged bush country of the South Island's thinly populated west coast. The nearest school was a tough nine miles away, too far for daily travel. So when she was five, Rosetta began listening to lessons broadcast each day by New Zealand's national radio stations...
...programs for primary and secondary schools are tuned in daily by some 3,000 pupils like Rosetta, who send in their completed lessons by mail. Rosetta resolutely kept at her lessons, switching to a battery radio and kerosene lamp when the family's moody generator failed, and her teachers soon came to know her as well as if she had a front-row desk in their classrooms. She got a prize for written composition at eleven, and last year she graduated from high school with an armful of honors-one of the few New Zealanders to make...
Last week Rosetta, now a bright-faced, brown-haired 17-year-old, was still getting used to learning from a teacher in a classroom. She is enrolled in Christchurch Training College, hopes to attend Canterbury University College next year. Note taking is hard for her; lectures in person are faster than by radio. The novelty of having other students to talk with is pleasant, although Rosetta is not sure she likes the clamor of bustling (pop. 210,000) Christchurch. Her goal: to prepare correspondence courses, teach arts and crafts for the same radio school that gave her an education during...