When William Osler was wee Willie Osler he was kicked out of school for filling the one room schoolhouse with chickens overnight.

一次，他在一夜之间使得学校里的一间教室满是活蹦乱跳的小鸡，他因此被勒令退学。

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Norman spent most of his time from age 7-17 on the farm, even as he attended a one-room, one-teacher school at New Oregon in Howard County.

从7岁到17岁，诺曼的大部分时间都在农场度过，甚至是当他在新俄勒冈州霍华德县的一所只有一间教室和一名教师的学校上学的时候。

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“This really isn't anything new, ” said Turner, who grew up attending a one-room country school near Norfolk.

她曾在靠近诺福克的一所只有一个教室的乡村学校就读，她说，“这样的班级不是什么新鲜事情了。”

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Mary began her first teaching job at a one-room local school teaching children for the summer.

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These are the true Boomers, who only remember construction, being moved from the one one room classroom school to another one room classroom in the church basement and then to the bomb shelter, if for no other reason than as a form of recreation.

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Without the jobs they provide, few people could live here, and there certainly would be no one-room school.

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Computers and VCRs may coas a lot, but it's doubtful that they are a greater burden than one-room school houses were for the cruelly poorer America of 60 years ago.

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