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...woman's family," explains Tobin, a journalist and teacher, who said she first heard about the codes when she bought a quilt from a woman named Ozella McDaniel Williams at a Charleston, S.C., market in 1994. Williams told Tobin that for generations women in her family had been taught an oral history that stated that quilt patterns - like log cabins, monkey wrenches and wagon wheels - also served as directions that helped slaves plan their escapes. Since she lacked historical data to back up Williams' claim, Tobin enlisted her friend Raymond Dobard, a quilter and art history professor affiliated with Howard...
...dean said scientists also had to be hired with an eye to improving how their disciplines are taught to undergraduates, concentrators and non-concentrators alike. “We must bring more of our non-science students to a more confident engagement with science,” he wrote...
When I reflect on the Core classes that dot my transcript, the problem as I see it had little to do with what I was learning, and everything to do with how it was taught, an error of method, not of content. In this light, the Task Force’s report seems too erudite and abstract for the dilemma at hand, like trying to fix a broken down car with a new theory of locomotion. The proposed shift from “ways of knowing” to “real-world context” will do little...
...discovered working as a cook and housekeeper in a Rhode Island rectory. There, she told Robert Osborne in a 2000 Turner Classic Movies interview, she found salvation under the gentle care of Father Peter McGuire. Hutton earned a cum laude degree from Salve Regina College, then taught drama and music. Her motto might have been the Johnny Burke-Jimmy Van Heusen novelty number she sang in the movie Duffy's Tavern: "I Have to Do It the Hard Way." She made it tough on everyone: her audience, her colleagues, herself...
...Iraq's muslims need to study Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels to learn about the folly of using differences to divide people. All Muslims should forget about succession from Muhammad and simply be good Muslims. And good Muslims don't slaughter one another. When people aren't taught to respect other teachings, religions, cultures and civilizations, they aren't inclined to respect the sanctity of life - not even their own. Zell Goodbaum, TORONTO...