Word: teachers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Palfry the Director plays recorder duets with his pupils; the math teacher is younger than his students; the dog under the classroom table is named Leo. The kids who hated school before are still hanging around after...
...immensely popular teacher at Shady Hill, Ryerson is now the major force behind the Palfrey Street School. Working with his wife, Alice, the school psychologist, he is putting into practice his own theory of liberal education, teaches daily English classes, maintains a constant personal involvement in every detail of the problems of individual students and faculty members, as well as fulfilling his administrative duties...
...ready to be teachers yet," the political history teacher, Richard Mandel, commented tersely. Yet this too is not as obvious a statement as it would seem. For in many senses the students are teachers and they are conscious of this...
...such groups as Bearings, an increasing number of "F.P.s" (as former priests are now called) are finding reasonably rewarding new occupations. Many go into teaching-though if the Catholic seminaries that they attended are unaccredited, which is often the case, they must return to college to earn a teacher's certificate. Others enter social work. One ex-priest, only four weeks after quitting, got a job at Funk & Wagnalls Publishing Co. in Manhattan. "I was completely honest on my job application," he says. "I just put down that I was a laicized priest, and that sent them to their...
Around them, though, the school is seething with suspicion and suppression. A priest-teacher, whose mind is slowly cracking with frustrated desire, threatens to take Alexandre away from Georges by becoming Alexandre's confessor. Finally the two boys are discovered in a clandestine meeting by a humane priest whose wisdom has been too cramped by his spiritual discipline to foresee the tragedy he triggers...