Word: teachers
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Visiting faculty members often tell him that their summer school course was "the best class I ever taught." Regular Harvard faculty members are occasionally more skeptical -- "any teacher who likes out and sees a class with a high school junior and a Jesuit Father won't know quite what he's talking to," Crooks comments. But Harvard Faculty members too are often pleasantly surprised. One Harvard professor, who taught a popular summer school course with about two-thirds non-Harvard enrollment, recalled that, "I was prepared for a disappointment, but it turned out to be some of the most rewarding...
...Having just read the interesting Essay on sex education in the U.S. [June 9], I cannot suppress an ironical snigger at the spectacle of a highly rational society indulging in such magical thinking as to suppose that, having drawn a diagram of a tiger on the blackboard, the teacher may safely invite children to stroke the nice "pussycat" roaming in the jungle. Sex is probably the most powerful, and certainly the most mysterious, of the instincts, and cannot be tamed by a textbook...
Crime and public apathy toward it were on the rise in Indianapolis the night that Dr. Margaret Marshall, a 90-year-old retired psychologist and teacher, stepped from her doorway into a darkened street. Without warning, a mugger lashed out at her head with a blunt weapon and snatched her purse. When Dr. Marshall died of her injuries, the Indianapolis News was deluged with letters from infuriated women. Assistant Publisher Eugene S. Pulliam asked one of the paper's staffers, Margaret Moore, 56, to help 30 prominent civic-minded women to decide on a course of action...
...Belmont Hill, a prep school founded by Harvard professors mainly for their children, Kingman settled for Bs on his report cards. "He had a tremendous brain, but there was so much else he wanted to do," recalls his Latin teacher. He edited the school newspaper, played the First Lord of the Admiralty in H.M.S. Pinafore. A star at debate, he helped beat a loquacious Groton team consisting of Franklin Roosevelt Jr. and William and McGeorge Bundy, taking the affirmative side on "whether capitalism is more conducive to war than socialism...
Brewster spent a year working with the Marshall Plan in Paris, returned to start a twelve-year teaching career, first at M.I.T., then at Harvard Law School. As a teacher, he "worked harder than I ever have before or since," he recalls. "Because of the caliber of the students, you find yourself spending most of your time on the ropes...