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...start Hollender was as relentless in recruiting instructors as he is in attracting students. He would walk into a gourmet shop and ask the owner to teach a course in opening a food store. But today experts come to him asking to teach; he accepts only 10% to 15% of the applicants. Teachers earn an average of $30 to $40 an hour, and can make as much as $12,000 a year teaching one course a week. But for many the rewards are more than monetary. Says Rand: "Anyone who works hard all day and enrolls in this kind...
...great instructors are not those who can teach motivated students with high IQs like Mortimer Adler's group as described in American Scene [June 22]. The great teacher is one who can reach the child from a broken home, or from a family with alcoholism, or with a criminal record. Let's see Adler attempt the same discussion with a girl who has been sexually abused by her stepfather, or a boy so stoned he is barely able to pronounce his name. If he can succeed with these youths, then I will be impressed...
...Party in 1933. He first attracted Mao's attention during the legendary 1934 Long March in the civil war against the Chinese Nationalists, when the Communists retreated 6,000 miles through eleven provinces before reaching Yanan in Shaanxi province. Though Hu never finished primary school and had to teach himself how to read, Mao assigned him to increasingly important jobs in the C.Y.L. in the 1930s. In 1941 Hu met Deng while they were both serving as political commissars with the army. Following the defeat of the Nationalists, Hu rose to become head of the C.Y.L. while his mentor...
...celebrated tubular steel and leather Wassily chair (named for Painter Wassily Kandinsky, one of its first purchasers). After leaving the Bauhaus in 1928, he created the simple steel and cane Cesca chair, which, like the Wassily, remains a ubiquitous furnishing today. Breuer came to the U.S. in 1937 to teach at Harvard's Graduate School of Design, where his students included Edward Larrabee Barnes, Ulrich Franzen, Paul Rudolph and I.M. Pei. A leading fig ure in the International style of architecture, Breuer designed such distinguished buildings as the IBM Research Center in La Gaude, France, the St. John...
Born in Hungary on May 21, 1902. Breuer studied in and later taught at the Bauhaus in Weimar, Germany. He came to the United States in 1937 to teach at Harvard, where he instructed such now-famous architects as Phillip Johnson, I.M. Pel and Edward Larrabe Barnes...