"The ordinary film artists," a booklet titled "Great Man and Art" informs the English reader, "have been able to ascend the high eminence of immortality under the special care of Comrade Kim Jong-il, their benevolent teacher and father".
For several hours every weekend, I would join three or four classmates to discuss the novel, which was published in 1872, at the home of a benevolent teacher who lived on the outskirts of Weymouth, the English seaside resort where I grew up.
See the pain body as your benevolent teacher.
Mostly benevolent teachers and headmasters guard them from the big bad world, but within the warm cocoon of the school, the kids can run amok with their friends on a perpetual adolescent sleepover.
Lacan points to the dialogue between Socrates and the slave Meno, where Socrates acts as a benevolent gentleman-teacher, granting the illiterate slave a crash course into Euclidean geometry, only to discover that the slave already knows his geometry, albeit in a practical, hands-on way.
Taken to swimming lessons by mother Cathy from the age of four, they would cycle the seven miles to secondary school and then, thanks to the unusually benevolent attitude of their teachers at Bradford Grammar, be allowed out of the school grounds at lunchtime to go running.
A benevolent interpretation is that Norwegian teachers are more tolerant and less worried about such problems in young children than parents and that they might be reluctant to declare internalizing behavior as problematic at this age.
In this chapter their adventures have an especially somber and scary coloration, as the three friends are cast out from the protective cocoon of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry into a bleak, perilous grown-up world that tests the independence they have struggled to obtain under the not-always-benevolent eyes of their teachers.
A New Approach The director began toying with new and less provocative genres — a gangster film, tear-jerkers and a tender tale of a village teacher who, with the help of a benevolent state television boss, rescues a lost student.
Directed by Mark Becker and Jennifer Grausman, Pressure Cooker shows what happens when adolescents who could easily end up working at McDonalds, Wal-Mart, or dealing drugs come into contact with a teacher whose personality quickly shifts between being a benevolent despot and a substitute parent.
From the vision of her papa's benevolent face blessing her from the skies to her original spiritual teacher, the Holy Pig Farmer, we are allowed to share both adventures and misadventures as Jessica Maxwell gets her bearings on the spiritual path.
