Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tract is located still appears as serene as it was in 1964 when the present rector, Father Keble Prosser, first came out from England to run St. Augustine's. The dirt road twists and turns its way up a hillside, into which are built low, one-story brick classroom buildings and dormitories, shaded by long verandas and heavy foliage. St. Augustine's 14th century bell continues to ring out across the valley. As the African sun climbs through the mist to strike the treetops, the hill rings too with the sound of children's voices...
...what happens in the future, school buildings are going to be very necessary for whatever government comes." He admits that he does not know how much longer St. Augustine's will be spared. Last week Father Prosser discovered chalked letters-HOME GO-written on the wall of a classroom building. Until recently, the phrase would only have been an end-of-term exhortatory...
...about his boyhood in the oil boomtown of Borger, Texas, a throwback to the wild West of unpaved streets and gun fights. Miller vividly remembers the day that the town's founder, Ace Borger, was shot dead in the post office. He cheerfully relates that his last exposure to classroom economics was a basic course at the Coast Guard Academy 33 years ago. All his knowledge of money markets was picked up while he ran Textron Inc., the $2.8 billion conglomerate based in Providence that makes thousands of products, ranging from helicopters to watchbands...
...article "When in Doubt, Stop Out" [May 22] is what the philosophy of education should be all about: complementing formal learning (classroom) with the experiences derived from everyday life...
...that time I was taking a course in English composition with Charles Townsend Copeland, better known as Copey, whose genial, sometimes crusty, habit it was to bring outsiders into his classroom, usually without notice to his students. The idea was to shake us up; an element of surprise was part of the process. Copey styled himself Harvard's "reader-in-ordinary." When he gave his readings, in a dry Maine accent and a gravelly baritone, he required absolute silence from an intimidated audience. He was about as 18th-century as a man could be; his academic life largely centered...