Word: pedagoguese
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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¶ "... old-fashioned pedagogues objected to that's me or it's him, because grammarians said that the pronoun after am or is also stands for the subject itself. They overlooked the fact that the authorized version of the Bible (Matthew 16:13) contains the question: 'Whom...
I remember his being introduced by J. P. ("The Boss") Firth, a giant of a marvelous man who was the headmaster. The Boss recalled that many times he had flogged Frey-berg V.C. The hero of the Dardanelles, standing there among the begowned pedagogues, smiled wryly and rubbed the seat...
Many of the books are successful products of commercial publishers, retooled by Army pedagogues and writers. Teacher-value is got into the books by simplifying language, adding helpful illustrations, frequent summaries, true & false tests. A physics self-teacher tells how to study gas diffusion without a laboratory: if a piece...
Passionate protagonist of Texan bilingualism is Mexican-born, Texas-trained Edmundo E. Mireles, who runs Corpus Christi's grade-school Spanish education program. Linguist Mireles (he knows seven languages) spends his days teaching Spanish, his nights brushing up the high-school Spanish of other teachers who strive to keep...
Only battle will prove how good are these 40,000, and only battle will give them the combat polish that marks the full-fledged fighting man. But T.I.S., vastly expanded, vastly speeded up, has worked its pupils into a soldier's mold with an efficiency that has made pedagogues...