Word: teachers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...twelve, bound up the steps of an old brownstone in Chicago's rundown Garfield Park area. They settle quietly in a small classroom crowded with battered desks. Maps and vocabulary lists festoon the walls; books overflow the corners. At 9 o'clock sharp, the tall, no-nonsense teacher begins to stride up and down the rows. "What did Socrates say?" she questions. "The uneducated man is like a leaf blown from here to there, believing whatever he is told," chorus the children. "What did Marcus Aurelius tell us?" "He alone is poor who does not believe in himself...
James Beard, 74, Manhattan-based author-teacher: "Go through cookbooks and articles about cooking and mark down what can apply to your own kitchen. I underline things with red pencil that I want to refer back to or put slips of paper into pages I want to turn to. There is such a wealth of ideas in good cookbooks that no one can collect all of them in a lifetime...
Jacques Pépin, 42, peripatetic teacher, author and cuisinier who was once the personal chef of Charles de Gaulle: "I recommend three good knives: two for slicing, one for chopping. A few basic strong pots. They don't have to be copper. But remember aluminum discolors some foods and stainless develops hot spots. Get good utensils-they will last forever, and you can give them to your children. Also try to avoid snobbism. Cooking is not for showing off to the neighbors...
...measure-are as important as inherent reasoning ability. Furthermore, most psychologists agree that the tests are biased in favor of middle-class children (blacks as a group score 15 points lower than whites). And there is a persistent danger that an IQ may become a labeling device. One Florida teacher gave his students more challenging assignments after noticing numbers ranging from 130 to 160 after their names; only later did he discover that they were locker numbers...
...fast on Soap, where there is a transsexual character, and on Three's Company, where the hero pretends to be gay so that the landlord will allow him to cohabit with two single women. When these two shows are followed by a Family episode about a lesbian teacher-as they recently were-one begins to feel that homosexuality is the hottest issue to sweep the country since Reconstruction...