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...level of respect reserved for one’s elders is admirable, if sometimes perplexing. Coming from a society in which older people are approached with a familiarity that occasionally borders on disrespect, it’s refreshing when I see students at the academy where I teach SAT classes bow deferentially to the school’s director. However, this reverence for elders can sometimes go over the top: My summer roommate Peter, a Brown student and Korean citizen, is required to use the honorific form of Korean when he speaks to Vince, a staff member at the academy...
...loving America today requires loving its past. Conservatives often fret about "politically correct" education, which forces America's students to dwell on its past sins. They're forever writing books like America: The Last Best Hope (by William J. Bennett) and America: A Patriotic Primer (by Lynne Cheney), which teach children that historically the U.S. was a pretty nifty place. These books are based on the belief that our national forefathers are a bit like our actual mothers and fathers: if we dishonor them, we dishonor ourselves. That's why conservatives got so upset when Michelle Obama said that...
...smiling 18-year-old. He spent years perfecting his favorite, called the Indian basket trick. In that one a boy climbs into a basket, and the magician makes him disappear. And regardless of the changes in the city beyond Kathputli, it is a trick he hopes one day to teach...
...spread of social-host laws makes it harder to teach a European model here. True, it's unlikely that police are going to raid private homes when only parents and their kids are together. But social-host prosecutions can be quite aggressive; in 2002 a Virginia mom and stepfather were sentenced to eight years behind bars for serving their son and his friends for the boy's 16th birthday. The couple had collected car keys in advance, and no one was hurt. But after years of failed appeals, the mom and stepdad, now divorced, had to report to jail last...
...would teach history and coach a couple of sports. I think that would make me very, very happy. That's always been my backup plan...