Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Roxbury District Court looked like a college classroom this morning at 46 M.I.T. students appeared before Judge Thomas J. Spring on charges of disturbing the peace...
...until grammar becomes a matter of opinion, and vocabulary an artistic style, "amo, amas, amat" must rule the language classroom. Sermons will not change instructors' attitudes toward verb declensions. To enliven and modernize the language teaching, the Faculty must recognize the inherent difference between instruction in language, and teaching in the social sciences, natural sciences, and humanities...
...Broun was able to quip later that he himself became a Communist because he went to see the Boston Red Sox play instead of listening to his economic's professor's lecture refuting Marx. But John Reed was not interested enough in his studies to learn Marxism in the classroom...
...Primary School Inspector of Paris reported that the nation's teacher and classroom shortage is raising havoc with the French school system: three out of ten pupils in preparatory courses, four out of ten pupils in second-year elementary courses, nearly half (46%) of all nine-to-eleven-year-olds, and up to 75% of those in their final elementary school classes, are at least a year behind their age groups...
...discomfort and outraged cries produced by this incident are typical of the reactions Seavey has been eliciting from his students throughout his teaching career. In most cases, however, the effect is intentional--the desired response to a purposely acid classroom technique. Indeed, his teaching method has often been considered the classic example of the Socratic method in legal instruction, the question and answer system which teaches students by exasperating them...