Word: teacher
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...well qualified to teach; he learned his own technique from one of the best: the great French pedagogue Isidor Philipp. He also picked up a few hints from his dad. Stravinsky once heard Soulima as a child playing Schumann's Etudes Symphoniques and stopped him: "Tell your teacher he will teach you my music and I will teach you Chopin and Schumann myself...
...became county school superintendent, later quit to concentrate on farming and writing short stories and poetry (Man with a Bull-Tongue Plow). This week, burly Jesse Stuart, now 42, published a new book (The Thread That Runs So True, Scribners; $3) to tell what life as a Kentucky mountain teacher was like...
Opening day was a nerve-racker for some. High-school students in Hazleton, Pa. went on strike when they learned that the school board had voted to abolish football. "No sports-no school," cried their picket signs. "Township unfair to students." Worcester, Mass, was trying to find a teacher of Lithuanian to satisfy the parents who wanted the language taught. Otherwise, Worcester was all set; for the first time since the war, the city had enough teachers. San Francisco and Denver reported the same...
Professor Henry Grattan Doyle of George Washington University thought it was time to call a halt. The latest gimmick among U.S. educators was something called "life-adjustment education" -a school of thought which seemed to believe that the teacher's job was not so much to teach history or algebra, as to prepare students to live happily ever after. "It will pass," said Professor Doyle to the Modern Language Association last week; but meanwhile, "it is continuing the same course of wild claims, blanket condemnation of 'traditional' subjects, anti-intellectualism, and contempt for 'book learning...
...implication of the personal responsibility of that teacher (not forgetting Tennyson and compound verbs) for Marty's inevitable end is unmistakable. Also unmistakable is the old technique that underlies such educational flapdoodle." The life-adjusters are "just as confident that a new phrase will solve problems that have plagued society for centuries ... as [their] predecessors ... of 'Education for Life,' 'Character Education,' 'Correlation and Integration,' 'Air-Age Education,' and 'Atomic-Age Education...