Word: teacher
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Music often conquers children's fears. To get a child to jounce on a board, a Broadoaks teacher pipes a jouncing song...
...health, 2) that adolescents can find other outlets for their energies. By frank discussion of literature (e.g., The Scarlet Letter, Idylls of the King), they may be enlightened about sex as a motive in general human conduct. Sex may raise its head in girls' home economics classes: "The teacher has an opportunity to bring up . . . the effects produced on the feelings by color and line . . . and the responsibilities involved in selecting and designing dress." The authors recommended that pupils and teachers discuss prostitution, masturbation, illegitimacy, divorce...
Prime requirement for sex education, said Authors Gruenberg & Kaukonen, is that its teachers (preferably married) should have a balanced outlook on life, be optimistic, poised, sympathetic to young people's problems, of upright character. A teacher must also be able to see that sex is sometimes funny, must be able to use humor without vulgarity, must never le his pupils get the impression that they have heard more dirty jokes than...
...have been interested in the book, How To Sing For Money, since it was in the manuscript stage. I thought your review (TIME, Oct. 9) a very keen analysis, but I wonder if it gave a slightly wrong impression of the function of the voice teacher today...
Henderson and Palmer do warn against the old-fashioned maestro who teaches affectation and artificial pretension but they actually recommend using a teacher who "honestly understands and sympathizes with your goal" (of singing to the masses). There are many enlightened vocal teachers in the country today whose business might be unjustly affected by the mistaken inference that this book, destined to become the authority on the subject, advises against their employment...