Word: learns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...When I was in the later days of gymnasium, a friend of mine said to me 'Now there are these mysterious Etruscans and we must learn about them.' He made me get interested with him. As it turned out, he became an actor; but I am still studying the Etruscans...
...goings-on is young Vice President, Diosdado Macapagal, a Magsaysay follower who, running on the Liberal ticket, got more votes for Veep than did Nacionalista Garcia for President. Since Macapagal refused to change his party after the election, Garcia barred him from any Cabinet post. Completely isolated ("I only learn what's going on from reading the newspapers"), Macapagal has been subjected to every kind of palace snub. If his air conditioner breaks down, maintenance men take weeks to fix it. When official limousines were handed out, he got a rattletrap that Garcia himself had long ago discarded...
...answers. Faced with a babel of tongues, and infinite degrees of sophistication between skilled Rumanian surgeons and ignorant Yemeni shepherds, Israeli officials were in trouble no matter what they did. If they put all Poles in one village and all Moroccan Jews in another, the newcomers failed either to learn Hebrew or to become part of the Israeli pattern; when they were mixed together in one village, there was perpetual conflict...
Ethically, Christians must learn to recognize in the Jews "a superior capacity for civic virtue which the Gentile majority rather flagrantly overlooks." Theologically, adds Niebuhr, Christians would do well to analyze the areas of divergence between the two faiths. He finds the differences less extreme than is generally supposed. "From the standpoint of the Christian, the doctrine of grace is the most significant distinction between Christianity and Judaism." But in the practical world, Niebuhr finds, a religion of grace does not always yield superior results: "The fact that Jews have been rather more creative than Christians in establishing brotherhood with...
...authors, who apparently assume that children are going to stay put in the towns where they are first taught, make another assumption much favored by the educationists-that "learning for learning's sake" is of scant value, and that only "life purposes," i.e., "needs of hunger, physical comfort, the desire for expression and social integration," can properly lead a child to learn. Is the purpose of study to beguile children or to educate future adults? "Why dramatize 'The Three Bears' in Spanish or French? ... In general, such language learning has little immediate social value. Children would derive...