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...most important factor in helping people learn, Rogers continued, is the personal relationship between teacher and learner. He cited three attitudes as basic to good student-teacher relationships: "realness," "prizing or positive regard," and "empathic understanding...
...reading action-packed stories about Greek mythological heroes. Teachers normally limit the children's reading sessions to no more than a half-hour. In that time a child responds affirmatively about 100 times. And each response, says Sullivan, means that "learning takes place inside the learner...
Motherwell proved a fast learner. The great lesson "of what modern art is all about," he believes, was first stated by French Symbolist Poet Stéphane Mallarmé in 1864: "Paint not the thing, but the effect it produces." For the young Motherwell, the easiest way to set this down was by combining oil, gouache and pieces of torn paper. Today his elegantly signed collages-which often combine pieces of French Gauloises cigarette packages, an envelope from his English bookseller or a football ticket-sell for from $3,500 to $5,500, are considered by connoisseurs the most elegant...
...improving the car's steering characteristics. In the end, though, G.M. Lawyer John Costanzo won by pinning the fault on Mrs. Collins as an "inexperienced" driver. Though she had driven the Corvair for four months before the accident, under cross-examination she admitted that she had only a learner's driving permit. Her panic at the sight of the truck on a narrow road caused the ac cident, argued Costanzo. "It had nothing to do with oversteer, understeer, neutral steer or whatever.After 43 days in court, the jury wound up more impressed by the circumstances of the accident...
Each electronic learner had daily half-hour sessions in an isolation booth outfitted with one of the devices. First he was allowed to noodle on the keyboard, pressing keys at random; each time he hit a key, the corresponding letter materialized two ways: typed jumbo-size on the paper in the machine and spoken by a recorded voice. After two or three sessions, the recorded voice began to assume more authority: instead of repeating letters as they were struck, it started to dictate them to the pupil. All keys on the typewriter locked except for the demanded letter...