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Today Britain can boast both freedom of religion, and freedom for. If a parent sincerely objects to the instruction-and some Jews and Roman Catholics do-he may keep his child away. Otherwise, a pupil can learn from "reserved" teachers, specially trained in "religious knowledge." The texts the teachers follow are specially written syllabi, which Anglicans and other Protestants agreed in 1944 to accept...
Irish-born Teacher John Gregg had no alternative but to carry out the father's wishes: the boy happened to be his first and only pupil. Six months later, he was also the first full-fledged graduate-a master of the new Gregg system of shorthand...
...title role, Rosenstock borrowed Baritone Marko Rothmuller, a onetime Berg pupil, from London's Covent Garden (from which he also borrowed the English translation). Rothmuller was a sympathetic character as the cloddish, hallucinated soldier, but vocally he turned out to be a bellower. Soprano Patricia (The Consul) Neway was miscast as Marie: she was more of a heart-wringing Tosca than the faithless tart she was supposed to be, and she screeched in her attempt to be heard over the orchestra...
...pupil of his in the Bible class...
This form of learning does have some good qualities, however, Roger says: adaptation of teach methods to individual pupil differences, adaptation of subject matter to individual interest, and the inauguration of many new subjects. But the defects far out weigh the assets, he concludes...