Word: teachers
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...Sense of Play. What is needed, he suggests, is more laughter among parents, children and teachers, since laughter "opens pathways to the discovering spirit," produces "a shared understanding," and "like love, it demands response." He argues that in their obsession with work, Americans have lost their "sense of play"; yet "the children's world must be our world, too. We may have to ask our way in, and we may be impolitely and properly asked out, but we must be there, if only to be looked at and puzzled over." Eble regrets the stuffiness of teachers' colleges that...
Eble also laments the low salaries and low prestige of teachers, which means that "if imagination is a conspicuous quality in an elementary teacher, surely its first use will be to consider employment elsewhere." When Eble visits the classroom of a good teacher, he finds that"one begins to feel a visceral response that leads to lumps in the throat and tears in the eyes...
Ever since it began training teachers, Bank Street has shunned "how to teach" courses, insisted that, as Vice President Charlotte Winsor explains, "the first step in learning to be a teacher is learning how to learn." On that principle, the school accepts only graduate students who already hold liberal arts degrees from other colleges. It throws its students immediately into practice teaching in the public schools, emphasizes individual instruction, and hopes that its graduates will get the idea that teaching is not a mass-production matter. "We try to do unto teachers as we hope they will do unto their...
Miss Melissa Tillman, a teacher at the New School for Children which is ant integrated private school for the poor in Roxbury, remarked, "segregation is bad because the ghetto gives the Negroes a false sense of security and bad for the whites because they don't know what to do when they meet other people. They don't know that its not a white world...
...Daniels, a Roxbury resident who attends Boston Latin and who took courses at the Urban School this summer, said that although most of the teachers were white, "it didn't bother me there; it's different from the Boston School System. It doesn't seem to matter whether your teacher is black or white. They're interested in teaching you something," Daniels said. It is also good to get out of Roxbury and see what other places are like, Daniels, who is applying to Harvard, added...