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Students of my generation were taught that E.M. Forster's Howards End is an important novel because its central dictum, "Only connect," is a prescription for the moral life. It was assumed that making connections was a sign of the mind's worth and purpose. Only connect; things fall apart; these fragments I have shored against my ruins. Perhaps this effort to bridge and yoke was a consequence of the big bad Bomb, and of a world growing up under the persistent threat of disintegration. Perhaps it was simply an invention of the academy in which exam questions insisted...
After she left the Ice Capades, O'Donnell taught skating. But she yearned for a greater challenge, so she began teaching the blind to skate. Since then, with the help of countless volunteers, she has taught more than 9,000 mentally and physically handicapped people. Each year these students get the chance to showcase their talents in an ice-show extravaganza...
...taught Georgiev in an economic theory class last semester, said Georgiev's death should pave the path for improving the graduate program...
...only writing as one supporter of Ebonics. With few exceptions, Ms. Barenbaum's entire analysis is completely incorrect. First, her worry that Ebonics will remove social fluidity and drive races and classes further apart is groundless. She seems to think that proponents of Ebonics want it to be taught to African-American students in classrooms across the country. On the contrary, Ebonics, as it currently stands, is going to be taught to teachers, who can then use this knowledge to facilitate their students' acquisition of standard English. This is what is commonly called a bridge program--using Ebonics to bridge...
...college is a place where you're supposed to learn. It wasn't happening to me in the classroom. 'To teach' means 'to show.' 'To lecture' means 'to read.' It seemed to me that I was being read at, not taught," Lee says...