But her mother, who doesn't particularly like Lord Byron when Ada was growing up, wants to make sure she doesn't become a poet, so has her tutored in mathematics, mainly-- as if being tutored in math were an antidote to becoming poetical.So she develops what she calls poetical science.
even though everybody there was poor, but if you were Anglo, they looked at you differently. So your son tutored others like you who had needed tutoring ?
become "poetical," which I believe was a Victorian euphemism for not ladylike or wild. So she had her tutored in mathematics and logic. She met Babbage at a party in 1833, always the best place to meet someone.
And let's see. I did so many ridiculous things. I cleaned out people's closets and tutored their kids. But it was really hard.
And then we'd have a lot of leeway in terms of skin color at least in that conversation-- Pacific Islander, Native American as well. the young person that I tutored at the school down the street, all those people.
But I met a man, Alonzo King, who became really sort of my mentor, a guru, almost. So I moved to San Francisco and tutored -- well, I was in the company. But really, I was a mentee to this man.
I've been able to see the impact of this human connection, but often in contexts that were hard to scale. In college, I tutored for a program called Amphibious Achievement, where we taught Boston public students how to row crew and prep for the SAT.
He was talking during World War II. It's by application, and you get tutored throughout the year.
I did a bunch of tutoring . It still sounds weird, but I remember there was one guy I tutored , and my gift to him at the end of the tutoring was a copy of "The Autobiography of Malcolm X," which, coming from me, was probably a pretty weird thing for him.
even though everybody there was poor, but if you were Anglo, they looked at you differently. And the really interesting thing about that is when my son was at Stanford, he tutored kids that were struggling.
I emerged for my first day of sixth grade very excited to go to school covered in tree sap and pine needles, And in town, not only do I get to go after school and be tutored , because it's walking distance, but I have access to public library.
You think the fact that people don't like you means they won't buy your products, even if it's the best on the market for their application? High school-age daughter. The guy from Google took his own time, went over the guy's house for a Saturday morning, tutored the daughter, fixed the computer,
Now, Ada Lovelace is partly a symbol in this book, because as a person, she's kind of controversial, but what she does as Lord Byron's daughter is her mother, Lady Byron, was optically fond of Lord Byron by the time Ada was growing up, for reasons that Byron fans will understand, and so had her tutored mainly in mathematics as if that were an antidote for her becoming a romantic poet, which Lady Byron did not want her to be.
Interesting. And then what about "Mandatory Fun" tour? But every now and then you get a little bit of a lesson in there. "Word Crimes" is full a lot of things for people that need to be tutored on grammar.
They were very poor. That I took ESL courses, ESL tutoring , and I went over and I tutored .