Search Details

Word: balsdon (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1980
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...Britain, American N.U.C. courses rely more on assigned reading than on their half-hour TV programs, which are designed to maintain a high level of interest among stay-at-home students. Chatty, first-person handbooks, specially written for the course by such noted teachers as Oxford Historian J.P.V.D. Balsdon and Archaeologist Peter Salway, a regional director of the Open University, guide students in their reading of original source material. On page 44 of one handbook, for instance, Balsdon notes briskly, "I cannot imagine your having the time" to read all 77 pages on the Emperor Augustus, but he adds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Degrees for Video Watchers | 9/15/1980 | See Source »

| 1 |