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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why does it matter? Perhaps it is to engage the students, to make students feel more relaxed or less nervous, to encourage and empower students to speak up to their teachers in class and challenge their ideas. Who knows? All I know is that it works at and for GDS.[/quote] It started out as a way to correct the way in which blacks and whites greeted each other in our segregated country. Black people always had to refer to whites with Mr. or Miss or Mrs.--this was true even if you had a black adult addressing a white child. Using the first name, without titles, was an important symbolic gesture--with psychological implications--for equality between the races in the Jim Crow era. The tradition of referring to each other by first names continues to this day. BTW, Quakers traditionally have eschewed formal titles, and referred to each other without honorifics; they used the term "Friend" to greet each other. [/quote]
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