Word: lesson
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Vendler said Heaney's selection could serve as a lesson that "poetry is not defined solely by nationality. It is defined by the language it was written...
...start of Dead Poet's Society, a class of prep school boys, who have spent their lives conforming to their parents desires, are presented by their new English teacher with the lesson "Carpe Diem...
...professors was a self-avowed Marxist. I'll never forget my initial excitement over the novelty of being taught by someone who espoused all the values I had been virtually innoculated against from birth. But what I first viewed almost as a joke became a lesson in tolerance and appreciation of intellectual diversity...
...teaching eager youths the secrets of their trade. Yet apprenticeship -- the acquisition of knowledge through practice in the presence of a master -- is a time-tested teaching method whose applications go far beyond the shop floor. The principle is at work every time someone takes a total-immersion language lesson, follows a doctor on his rounds to learn how to practice medicine, or tags along with a crack dealer to learn the ropes of the drug trade. In fact, a body of scientists and educators maintains that it is the primary means by which people learn. "If you look...
...lesson I learned is that in politics, values count more than particular policies or positions in terms of the way the public looks at candidates," Estrich says. "Unfortunately, the Bush campaign did a better job of communicating its version of Dukakis' values than our campaign did of communicating his values...