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Liberal_in_LA

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Sat May 16, 2015, 03:41 PM May 2015

professor holds toddler so student can remain in lecture [View all]


This is the touching moment a professor held a student's baby during class so she wouldn't have to leave mid-lecture.
Sydney Engelberg, a social psychologist at Jerusalem's Hebrew University, scooped up the baby after it started to cry during his organizational behavior class.
The 67-year-old native of South Africa who has taught for 45 yeas and has five grandchildren, teaches in the master's degree program, which means he has plenty of older students.


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3084589/Hebrew-University-professor-holds-student-s-crying-baby-lectures-doesn-t-leave-class.html#ixzz3aKezIAMj
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This makes me smile Gothmog May 2015 #1
Love it! Faux pas May 2015 #2
Good for him! That's really cute... (nt) petronius May 2015 #3
Now that is a cool professor. daleanime May 2015 #4
Which gives credence to the notion Lilith Rising May 2015 #5
Huh? GP6971 May 2015 #11
As in - it does (or should) take Lilith Rising May 2015 #13
Got it. Thanks GP6971 May 2015 #15
And if this helps Lilith Rising May 2015 #14
How much is tuition there? Compared to here? n/t jtuck004 May 2015 #6
if you agree to spend a couple more years in the IDF it's free Mosby May 2015 #9
Sadly Aerows May 2015 #7
Used to be 1939 May 2015 #8
Most professors I know are very collegial. I doubt that as a group they are Vattel May 2015 #16
Grad school ten years after undergraduate 1939 May 2015 #17
I guess my experiences are very different than yours. Vattel May 2015 #18
I once had to bring my, then 3-year-old, daughter to final exams with me. ScreamingMeemie May 2015 #10
I have had infants and toddlers in my classroom on more than one occasion, petronius May 2015 #19
Hahaha... ScreamingMeemie May 2015 #20
K&R! Omaha Steve May 2015 #12
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