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School-teacher Father: But:'There are lots of things I'm rather worried about and I'd like to talk to the teacher, but I'm too shy to go up to the school.' 'I always feel the teacher disapproves of me because I go out to work.' 'I want to know everything that's going on, but I don't want them to think I'm a pushy mum.' 'I hate going into the school because everyone else knows where to go, even the children. I just feel lost.' 'She talks to us as if we were children.'
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.
His school-teacher father was in fact the first person to encourage his son's talents, although he was at first rather more concerned about Pablo's progress at school. Later in his life, Picasso used to tell that he had really only been interested in the way the teacher wrote numbers on the blackboard. He would copy their shapes, but had absolutely no interest in the mathematical problem. He often wondered how he had ever managed to learn basic arithmetic. Instead, he used to make drawings whenever possible. To him this seemed to be the only way in which he could express himself appropriately. |
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