Word: teachers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What's wrong with teachers dealing through unions? I am a plumber, and I work hard but get paid plenty for it. My wife is a teacher who is paid half as much as I but works twice as hard. She brings work home every evening, grades, corrects and evaluates all of her kids, but she earns less than some of the custodians that work in her elementary school...
Maybe our kids should wise up: don't be a teacher if you want to get paid well. Blue collar has more class...
Poet, demon, prophet, artist-all the labels apply, but none will adhere to William Blake (1757-1827). The wild-eyed precursor of romanticism disdained organized religion and mocked rigid science. He was his own martyr, church and congregation, his own teacher, pupil and school. Blake's art and poetry only seem naive; in fact they are so dense with nuance and implication that each generation must interpret them anew. The modern reader can have no better introduction to the oeuvre than Milton Klonsky's William Blake: The Seer and His Visions (Harmony Books; 142 pages; $12 hardcover...
Some were borne to center stage for the first time, including the woman on TIME'S cover, Peggy Kokernot, 25, a Houston physical education teacher and marathon runner. Along with other women athletes, she had been called on to make up for lost time when the symbolic, 2,612-mile torch relay that preceded the conference began to lag so far behind schedule there was fear the convention would outpace its torch. She was then placed in the group that ran the bronze torch into the opening session, and her own ambition says much about why there was a women...
...evil abounds, he reasons, an unseen kingdom of Tightness must exist, and that means God. From there Lewis proceeds to explain evil via the Fall of Man and to offer Christ as the solution. In one passage Lewis rejects the "foolish" idea that Jesus was just a "great moral teacher." No, he says, this was One who claimed to forgive sins and declared that he would judge the world. "Either this man was, and is, the Son of God: or else a madman...