Word: grammars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Meaning: "Turn on coolant, turn on spindle, go right with tool on left side along circle whose center is at x= +2,y = +3, with a radius of+5." This language is translated by a large computer that has been fed a set of cards punched with the APT grammar and vocabulary, thus has "learned" APT language. After it has read the APT instructions, the computer tests its solution with a blip of light that appears on a screen and goes through the motions that the machine tool is expected to make. If no corrections are needed, the computer spits...
Madame Duhamel also found fault with the method by which grammar has been taught in the past. She asserted, "There has been too much emphasis on the cas special, and subjects such as the order of pronouns have been taught in patches over a period of several months instead of in one concentrated lesson." Madame Duhamel, who taught French to foreign students at the Sorbonne in Paris for 12 years, felt that grammar should be over-simplified if necessary in order to get across to the student its essentially logical pattern...
...Cannon became enamoured with Peking's Temple of Heaven ("some things no amount of praise will spoil"), acquired two Russian icons by Italian artists, made friends with eminent scientists of myriad nationalities, including Russia's Pavlov. She swears that her foreign languages remain abysmal, that she never bothers with grammar. Asked whether she lectured to Cambridge on return, she answered, "Oh yes. I afflicted everybody...
...Children start when they are seven, go through only four years of elementary school. The next year-their fifth-they begin a stiff, six-day-a-week secondary school program. By the time a Russian child reaches the eighth year, he is assumed to have a thorough knowledge of grammar-a subject most U.S colleges find it necessary to pound into freshmen. By graduation, he has studied one foreign language for six years, has been exposed to 4½ years of mathematics and almost six years of science...
...system of fulltime middle schools (corresponding to U.S. high schools) will be abandoned. The majority of students will go directly from grammar schools into factories and farms. Those who want more education may apply for a shortened work day, continue studying in three-year night courses...