Word: learns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Yale idea was big: to combine a drama school with a professional repertory theater, to attract practicing professionals who would both participate in Rep productions and provide instruction for students. "...thus," said Brustein, "Students learn not by doing things badly(the usual situation) but, first, by watching them done well and, second, by attempting to match those standards...
...article on the Harvard men's soccer team is in itself, to quote his headline, "a sad, familiar tune." After five years at Harvard and a 26-33-9 record, it is questionable why the Harvard men's varsity soccer program has to be George Ford's way to "learn how to relax with his players." It is regrettable that Mr. Gil could not find it in himself to take a more substantive stance on this issue...
...19th century England, and from Jeremy Bentham; or that Alexander the Great got from a tutor named Aristotle. But even those who reject Holt's radical solution find it hard to disagree with his view that administrative gobbledygook too often comes between children and their desire to learn. "People have been transmitting knowledge and skills for centuries," notes Holt. "Not everyone does it equally well, but it is an accessible skill...
...Beginner Books; $3.50) again features "the Cat in the Hat," a feline who speaks in the universal language of childhood, whimsy: "You'll learn about Jake the Pillow Snake, and all about Foo-Foo the Snoo." Here, as in more than 30 previous books, the doctor proves to be an eye and ear specialist. His deceptively simple jingle is designed to be heard and inspected repeatedly until the rhythms awaken children to the delights of rhyme and the rewards of literacy...
...Yeah, right, and I'm Santa Claus," one of the students mumbles, knowing full well that there are 80 Kaplan centers in the United States and abroad. But this is the real McCoy (oops, Kaplan), and we later learn that Kaplan refuses to franchise his operation, continually flying across the country from center-to-center with the incessant drive and ambition that has made him the nation's test-prep messiah...