Word: teachers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Andrew, do you realize that you're a gutless chameleon?" asked Teacher Jim Searles of the shy, withdrawn teen-ager who had come for an interview at the Hyde School in Bath, Me. Andrew was close to tears, but Searles was only following the sock-it-to-'em pedagogic philosophy of his boss, Hyde Founder Joseph Gauld, 50. Faced with a rebellious applicant, Gauld once shouted, "Listen, I'm telling you either change your attitude around me or I will jam it down your throat...
...Martin Luther King Sr. said the other night, if you have got any hatred left in your heart, get down on your knees." He concluded by telling churchgoers that "you do not have to have a preacher. You do not even have to have a Sunday-school teacher. You just have to have a simple faith...
Jargonwise, the conference was a regular laff riot. Toronto Teacher John Atkin proposed establishing "designed, unifunctional anxiety-release centers in a community situation." Translation: maybe it would be a good idea to have a string of government-supported laugh parlors, where people could go to chuckle. A group of Canadian researchers reported on "Ethnic Humor as a Function of Social-Normative Incongruity on the Basis of Multiple Dependent Variables." The report questioned whether Chinese immigrants found Canadians funny, but reached no firm conclusions. Another paper analyzed "Glee Rates" of nursery-school children. Among its findings: playfulness decreases when kids...
Tricky Business. Rehearsing her chorus, Hillis is both morale builder and teacher. At one point in the Ninth she holds her palm out as if to ward off the sound. "Piano. Piano. You know that young man will hold that note forever," she says, referring to James Levine, 33, music director of the Met, who is to conduct the full symphony. "I expect you to be as young as he is." A few measures later she is talking about one of the chorus' celebrated pianissimos. "Sopranos, listen to the tenors and just place the sparkling star gently above their...
...Teachers here are more involved in curriculum planning. Each school decides its own topics, and as a result, the teacher becomes more aware of the methods of teaching...