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...classroom, we were anxious to compensate for the fifteen years of dreary teaching most of the Shaw students had gotten. But we were well aware that simple drill was not going to achieve miracles; we toyed with shock techniques designed to persuade students that classroom thinking could be related to their experience. One of the first essays assigned asked students to answer the question, 'If God had not approved of drinking, why did he make alcohol?" The response varied from enthusiastic to sullen. Some tutees never showed up after the first meeting...
Many of the girls stumbling downstairs at 7 a.m. had just gotten to bed after the South House Master's Ball. As girls walked through the water-soaked dining room one police officer called, "I bet this is the first time you've washed your feet in a week...
...South Boston wasn't the toughest neighborhood in the world, but there were a lot of fights, and since I was a small kid, I figured I'd better discourage people from bothering me," he said. "If I'd been any bigger, I probably would have gotten interested in other sports besides boxing...
Decentralization, then, aims also at promoting an even cultural mix--creating a truly classless society. On this score, it seems to have gotten mixed results. In May, Pham Van Dong spoke earnestly with an Italian physicist about the "cultural" benefits which the war was bringing peasants, but his insistence seemed to hid frustration, and the mere mention of the problem establishes its existence...
Nobody leaves as a result of case-aide work. They leave as a result of getting some help in leaving. They might not have gotten this without case-aide simply because they're lost in a mob of 300 people. The patient has to get himself to the point of leaying, but frequently he cannot do this on his own. At least five out of the about 25 adult patients who have been seen by case-aide workers in the past three years have gone to halfway houses, or gotten out and gotten jobs. This is usually the result...