Education: Good Teach

A year ago, blonde Anne Waterman, fresh out of Vassar, was a little dissatisfied with the life she was leading. In Washington she heard a Polish Embassy official complain about the teacher shortage in Warsaw, and decided to help, because "I wanted to show my family that I could do something worth while."

In Warsaw, 80 Poles in tattered clothes now crowd into a dingy classroom at the bombed-out university to learn English from Anne. For nine months, she has been the only U.S. teacher at the University of Warsaw.

Between English nouns and verbs, she began trying to tell the Poles about...

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