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Campus Life An Apple for the Teacher American schoolchildren occasionally present an apple to the teacher. Obviously the custom contains an element of bribery 1you offer sweet fruit to authority figures to sweeten 2 their disposition 3. In school childrens case, the apple is offered to make their grades more favorable. Therefore, the apple has more or less acquired a corrosive4 reputation and maybe for this reason, in slang English to applepolish meansto flatter or fawn and an applepolisher is a flatterer. But the custom might also be explained as a fair payment for the teachers instruction. In the early days of public education, school teachers were not always salaried. Often they would be paid in goods and services, offered by either the school, or the pupils or the parents. . .. Therefore, the occasional gift of an apple for the teacher in todays classroom should be a welcome reminder of the era when education was one -to-one and when teaching meant enlightening the students rather than identifying their rankings. Caps and Gowns For students, the most exciting moment may be the graduation ceremony 5: parents, relatives and friends are invited to the ceremony; all the graduates are wearing black square flat caps and gowns. They all await the president to announce in the end,Now, please move your tassels from right to left. | 
