Word: taught
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...imagine one within it. On one level what they were saying frightened and disturbed me. But that did not obscure the fact that they seemed to be genuinely concerned, sincere people who believed they were speaking with compassion. Misguided yes; dangerous, certainly; but evil like I had been taught? I had to hesitate...
Upon finishing his Ph.D, Brustein taught at Cornell University and Vassar College and finally returned to Yale in 1966 as Dean of the drama school that he had left years earlier...
...professor, Brustein worked with students who have since become famous Hollywood stars. He taught Sigourney Weaver, Jane Fonda and Meryl Streep...
...self-taught members said that they can now perform a variety of tricks, including many of the classics--sleeping yo-yo, walk the dog, over the top, around the world and shoot the moon...
...flat-earth view of the world, since it rejects modern science about reading and writing and how they develop." Apparently, though, it is the whole-language advocates who reject what modern science has to say about reading--which is that readers do attend to every letter, that phonics taught in isolation is effective and that poor readers rely on context, while good readers do not. Thus by encouraging guessing, a whole-language teacher is reinforcing a bad habit. As for the idea that written language is acquired as naturally as oral language, that has been dismissed on empirical grounds...