Word: learne
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME, March 21 I read that Superintendent Wegner [of Roslyn, L. I., whose "progressive" system of education was recently favorably reviewed by the New York State Education Department] says "in making nut bread the pupils learn to add, subtract & multiply." A similar method of education was used in England in the time of Charles Dickens. In Nicholas Nickleby, the schoolmaster, Squeers, gave the verb "weed" to be spelled, defined and conjugated by the class and then sent them out to weed the garden...
Three days before, the fallen financier had undergone his last inquisition-by the SEC, which sought to learn from his crimes a basis for preventing any more like them in Wall Street This morning he had said good-by to his wife and two daughters, all of whom have indicated that they will go to work. Standing silently in court he had just listened to a long, florid plea for mercy by his lawyer, Charles Tuttle. Excerpt...
...year, a number were placed on probation until the end of the year, and a sizeable group were on disciplinary pro until this mid-years. The ones punished were not necessarily the most guilty. They were the ones caught. The University treats riots seriously, and the sooner the undergraduates learn this the better...
...picked representatives of three faiths (Catholic, Jewish and Protestant) who agreed, at a World's Fair luncheon, to help raise $300,000 for the Temple. U. S. Lutherans and Episcopalians, who for two years had been negotiating for space for exhibits at the Fair, were dashed to learn that none would be available for them. Two church papers, thereupon, let off a little steam...
Progressive schools in Czechoslovakia, like those in the U. S., stress moppets' health (see cut), and teach children informally: let them learn arithmetic by keeping records of their height and weight; teach them reading by the "global method" (to recognize whole words instead of plodding through them letter by letter...