Then when Miss Langford was on the end of the line of girls, Jack, in the middle of the line, gave an extra hard pull and the young teacher sprawled backwards, sitting down hard, her dress flying over her head.

He had considered throwing erasers or flipping paperwads at someone or pulling the hair of the girl sitting in front of him, but he couldn't take a chance on either of these possibilities: the teacher probably would make him stand face-to-wall in a corner instead of stay in after school.

The only drawback now to the plan he'd decided on was that someone else might fail to do his work, too, and the teacher would have that person stay late along with Jack.

My curiosity was sharpened a day or two before the interview by a conversation I had with a well-informed teacher of literature, a Jesuit father, at a conference on religious drama near Paris.

Certainly all can applaud passage of an auto title law, the school bills, the increase in teacher pensions, the ban on drag racing, acceptance by the state of responsibility for maintenance of state roads in municipalities at the same rate as outside city limits, repeal of the college age limit law and the road maintenance bond issue.

But Schnabel was a great teacher in addition to being a great performer, and the fact that four of the ten versions I listened to are by Schnabel pupils ( Clifford Curzon, Frank Glazer, Adrian Aeschbacher, and Victor Babin ) also sheds light on the master's pedagogical skills.

However, the teacher who understands the influence of emotions on behavior may be highly influential in helping pupils gain confidence, security, and satisfaction.

It is apparent, therefore, that the teacher needs to know what factors have a vital bearing on the learning and adjustment of children.

Before coming on a visit to Spelman in 1885, Miss Mary had been a successful teacher in Worcester, and her position there was held open for her for a considerable period.

In those vocational programs organized with Smith-Hughes money, there may be a close tie between the labor union and a local employer on the one hand and the vocational teacher on the other.

It was thrilling to see the effect of an American-trained teacher on Japanese students in a class in Home Planning.

In the academic world there is seldom anything so dramatic as a strike or a boycott: all that happens is that the better qualified teacher declines to gamble two or three years of his life on the chance that conditions at the Catholic institution will be as good as those elsewhere.

Tenderly and rather tediously, the camera rivets on the abrupt, deep love of a pretty nurse and a uniformed teacher, complicated by nothing more than a friend they don't want to hurt.

Little boys crowded together on long wooden benches, and in the center of the room sat the teacher.

They singsonged the portion at the teacher, who accompanied them in an off-key baritone and spurred them on with the stick.

A sign that may be lowered to the cheek level by an ASL speaker is more likely to be produced by a Black Sign Language speaker on the forehead, for example: teacher.

Saint Alcuin had a long career as a teacher and scholar, first at the school at York, founded in AD 627 ( now known as St Peter's School, York ) and later as Charlemagne's leading advisor on ecclesiastical and educational matters.

Anaximenes was a pupil of Zoilus and, like his teacher, wrote a work on Homer.

Private lessons usually cost in a similar rate compared to private music lessons, depending on the reputation and available time of the teacher.

Charlotte returned to Roe Head as a teacher on 29 July 1835 accompanied by Emily as a pupil ; her tuition largely financed by Charlotte's teaching.

There was also hardware in place through which the teacher could see the display of each pupils screen on his own monitor.

Through a special " video-switch " the teacher was also able to see a copy of each students display on his own screen.

The book tells the story of Paul Bäumer, a soldier who — urged on by his school teacher — joins the German army shortly after the start of World War I. Bäumer arrives at the Western Front with his friends and schoolmates ( Tjaden, Müller, Kropp and a number of other characters ).

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The American impressionist Mary Cassatt, who at one point lived in Paris to study art, and joined his Impressionist group, noted that he was “ such a teacher that he could have taught the stones to draw correctly .”

Contemporary Buddhist teacher Ajahn Brahm emphasizes this point using a simile that compares the experience of dukkha to being in prison, and compares meditation ( Pali: jhana ) to a tunnel that leads out of the prison:

No point of this doctrine is original with Eusebius, all is traceable to his teacher Origen.

At this point, the " teacher " and " learner " were separated into different rooms where they could communicate but not see each other.

Franz Boas, her teacher and mentor, has been called the father of American anthropology and his teachings and point of view are clearly evident in Benedict's work.

If one is not paying attention, or if the teacher has not explained the drill properly, the training can accelerate and become competitive ; if this happens, the students are missing the point of the exercise altogether.

His first shots struck teacher Karen Farley in the arm ; when she went down he killed her at point blank range.

At one point, owing to this disenchantment, Dōgen even refused Dharma transmission from a teacher.

In contrast to conventional classroom learning, in which a teacher lectures to the student and the student repeats the information back in tests, chavruta-style learning challenges the student to analyze and explain the material, point out the errors in his partner's reasoning, and question and sharpen each other's ideas, often arriving at entirely new insights of the meaning of the text.

In Theravada Buddhism, Buddha refers to one who has become enlightened through his own efforts and insight, without a teacher to point out the Dharma.

Samyaksambuddhas ( Pali: sammasambuddha ) gain Nirvana by their own efforts, and discover the Dhamma without having a teacher to point it out.

During her childhood, she was taught to play the piano and violin, taught herself to play the acoustic guitar, sang in the school choir, and at one point considered becoming a ballet teacher.

It is also possible for the teacher to use a concordancer to find examples of authentic usage to demonstrate a point of grammar or typical collocations, and to generate exercises based on the examples found.

At one point, he had an offer to study classical composition in Paris with the famed teacher Nadia Boulanger — an opportunity that pleased Jarrett's mother but that Jarrett, already leaning toward jazz, decided to turn down.

By this point William had established himself as an organist and music teacher at 19 New King Street, Bath, Somerset ( now the Herschel Museum of Astronomy ).

As a religious teacher, literary critic, historian and jurist, Harrison took a prominent part in the life of his time, and his writings, though often violently controversial on political, religious and social subjects, and in their judgment and historical perspective characterized by a modern Radical point of view, are those of an accomplished scholar, and of one whose wide knowledge of literature was combined with independence of thought and admirable vigour of style.

At one point a teacher distributes a duplicated schedule of class quizzes, and every student immediately lifts it to his or her nose and inhales.

Choosing Hitoshi as her computing teacher, Cindy flirts with him in front of Saati to the point of an tug-of-war that knocks him out cold.

It was at this point that he made the pivotal transition from academic teacher to dharma or meditation teacher, devoting himself more and more to teaching meditation, to the students who came to his programs, and to his own meditation practice.

Diodorus was probably following the history of Ephorus at this point, who in turn was presumably influenced by his teacher Isocrates — from whom there is the earliest reference to the supposed peace, in 380 BC.

He also made increasing teacher salaries a major priority, at one point promising to stop cashing his paychecks until teachers ’ salaries reached the Southern average.

At one point, the teacher called the narrator to his office to encourage him to leave school if he wants to be a writer.

His father, a primary teacher, raised him speaking French, although he spoke Breton fluently, because he did not see the point in teaching Breton to his son.