Word: taught
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...never been a problem for Scheving. He started his first job when he was five, running messages to residents of his hometown who didn't own phones. In his early 20s he worked as a carpenter - Scheving proudly boasts that he built his own house "from scratch" - and taught fitness in his spare time. Then, when he was 25, Scheving made a life-changing bet with a friend: they gave each other three years to excel in a sport they'd never tried before. "I chose snooker for him, and he picked aerobic gymnastics for me," he says...
...Brandt, who has taught both at the College and the Medical School, described the challenges of leading a course which includes both graduate and undergraduate students...
...College has taught me a different sort of recollection. I am dependent on quite a different type of memory, a detached one. September 23, not a Friday, perhaps a Wednesday this year, is a date. It tells me eight years have passed since I lost my mother. On September 23, there may be flowers on my family’s dining room table. My father may tell me one of his patients remembered my mother, or that they sent along a card. It is a memory not of the emotions that surround death but of the time that has passed...
...comfort to this feeling. It is a way of a new recollection, one in which I am ever more conscious of the passing of time, of the reliving of a different memory away from concrete things and attached to unfamiliar things. The most valuable lesson college has taught me thus far has been the adaptability of memory, the transference of recollection to a new set of catalysts. The brilliance of memory is that it is undying, but the emotion of recollection is one that must be constantly learned, channeled, and relived...
...Tibet three years ago to illustrate the fear that inhibits Chinese civilians and Tibetans from speaking freely. “The greatest feeling I came away with was the fundamental distrust and disconnect between the Tibetans and the Chinese government and Chinese people,” said Dickyi, who taught at a rural Tibetan school. “Before I went to Lhasa, everyone warned me against talking freely.” Both Han Chinese panelists Lan Xue, a professor at China’s Tsinghua University and a visiting professor at the Kennedy School, and Yue Tan D. Tang...