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...official academic focus shifted, thanks to a promise made to his dying father that he would study law rather than science (he also took up literature and Spanish). On his return to America, he took a position as a high school Spanish teacher. Though he was popular with students--especially, according to Hubble biographer Gale Christianson, with the girls, who were evidently charmed by his affected British diction and "Oxford mannerisms"--Hubble longed to return to science...
Although every teacher in training memorizes Piaget's four stages of childhood development (sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, formal operational), the better part of Piaget's work is less well known, perhaps because schools of education regard it as "too deep" for teachers. Piaget never thought of himself as a child psychologist. His real interest was epistemology--the theory of knowledge--which, like physics, was considered a branch of philosophy until Piaget came along and made it a science...
...under instructions from Brigham Young himself. When Farnsworth was 12, his family moved to a ranch in Rigby, Idaho, which was four miles from the nearest high school, thus necessitating his daily horseback rides. Because he was intrigued with the electron and electricity, he persuaded his chemistry teacher, Justin Tolman, to give him special instruction and to allow him to audit a senior course. You could read about great scientists from now until the 22nd century and not find another instance where one of them celebrates a high school teacher. But Farnsworth did, crediting Tolman with providing inspiration and essential...
Last year, Baer organized a series ofconferences for his eighth grade English teacher.The teacher brought a group of other middle schoolteachers to Harvard for advice on broadeningjunior high school curriculums...
Sarah H. Winkeller '00 has embraced the mantra articulated the first day of classes by her Spanish history teacher in Sevilla Spain. Describing the philosophy of Andalucia, the southern region of Spain, he said, Trabajar para vivir, no vivir para trabajar...