Word: teachers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ticking Off Teacher...
...condensation of my views on teaching, I was quoted as not believing in "a libidinous relationship [between teacher and student] such as they have at Sarah Lawrence." I was discussing not sex mores, but teaching ethos. I expressed my belief that it is better for teaching to be problem-centered than, as at Sarah Lawrence, person-centered, and that the basic tie between teacher and student should therefore be intellectual, not libidinal. The discussion focused on how to encourage the love of learning, not on the learning of love. Sarah Lawrence, please excuse...
...Masonite squares and circles to get a grip on geometric symbols. They stand on one foot and hold out their arms to comprehend the ideas of leftness and rightness. They manipulate letters that have been fashioned from pipe cleaners, feel the shapes with their eyes closed as the teacher pronounces the letter's sound. The aim, says Mrs. McGlannan, is to blend sight, sound and touch in order to straighten out jumbled perceptions by "involving all the sensory pathways...
...approaches teaching with the conviction that the worst enemy of art is boredom. "The child starts out with a dull teacher. Plunk, plunk. What should be a beautiful experience becomes drudgery. Terrible. We must keep them in flames." Piatigorsky keeps the fire aglow. Every week or so, about a dozen talented students in his master's class come to his big house in West Los Angeles and form a semicircle in his living room. Piatigorsky slumps his big frame (6 ft. 3½ in.) into an easy chair, and one by one the students play a solo...
...scientist asked Piatigorsky how he liked his violin playing. The cellist hesitated. It was probably the first time that Teacher Piatigorsky was at a loss for ready analysis of someone's playing. But only momentarily. "Eh," he finally spluttered, "relatively well...