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Interprets The Teacher: Again making use of 'what everyone knows', i.e. that a good place to hide precious/embarrassing/unusual/special things is under the bed, she gave an acceptable account of what followed in which clarity of meaning is in no way impeded by the inappropriate use of the regular past tense. She correctly interprets the teacher's interrog-ative repetition of her statement as a 'request for more', as meaning 'and what happened next?' John is her brother, which was well-known in the nursery, so it was unnecessary to offer further elaboration of his role, and 'of course' everyone knows that brothers are wont to be destructive so that John is easily 'ad hoced' into that familiar category in order to round off the story.
After a few days the teacher noted that Eleanor was fairly comfortable in school and was happy to talk about the games she was playing. The teacher noted: 'Eleanor enthusiastically told me the names she had given to all the plastic play people/
After about a week Eleanor began to greet the teacher when they met in the morning and she usually had some news to report. The teacher felt that this was a good sign that Eleanor was settling in well.
Should a child love his teacher? Yes, if "love" is taken to mean a warm, constructive relation in which the child is truly valued and helped to develop his best potentialities. No, if it means a relationship that is intense and meets the emotional needs of the teacher at the expense of the child. A teacher's strong personal affection for one child may lead to favoritism, which children keenly resent. Or it may make the child oversensitive to the teacher's opinion. |
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