Word: schooling
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Carol's family called her "Ditty." They lived in a small house in an ordinary-looking section of Stamford. Ditty's father was Police Sergeant Carl Paight, a member of the force for 27 years. Her mother taught school in New York. The Paights sent Ditty to New England College in New Hampshire, and her brother, Carl Jr., to New Haven State Teachers College. Between Ditty and her father was a deep and affectionate bond...
...Communists, education is a branch of politics. This month's Budapest Köznevelés (Public Education), outlining an elementary-school curriculum by the Hungarian Education Ministry, runs true to doctrine...
...suburb in the southwest section of London. He was tutored at home until he was nine years old-first by his mother, and later by a governess, a Miss Hutchinson, one of whose earlier pupils she remembered as a "strongwilled child" named Winston Churchill. Attlee went off to boarding school at nine, and he has described his subsequent years in terms remarkably like Churchill's account of his own school days. Wrote Attlee...
...prepared to practice a little and to read a lot of history on the side. He might have continued on that placid course but for an old schoolmate who invited him to spend an evening at Haileybury House. This was a settlement house run by Attlee's old school in London's Limehouse district. Attlee began helping out at Haileybury House a few evenings a week. The experience changed his life. "The condition of the people in that area, as I saw them at close quarters, led me to study their causes and to reconsider the assumptions...
From then to the outbreak of World War I, young Socialist Attlee worked with Sidney and Beatrice Webb for the repeal of the Poor Law, lectured at Ruskin College, Oxford, on trade unionism and trade-union law, and later on social science at the London School of Economics. He became a member of the Fabian Society and of the Independent Labor Party...