Word: teach
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...protested a birth-control exhibit at a city Parents' Exposition. Year after that he closed a high-school auditorium to a talk on free speech. In 1930 Dr. Campbell banned a history textbook which challenged the sanctity of U. S. institutions. Last week Dr. Campbell defended his history-teaching concepts, elaborated his educational philosophy thus: History: It wouldn't do, would it, to tell a boy of eight, nine or ten all the facts in the life of his own father? Then why get so confidential with him about historical characters? George Washington swore like a trooper...
Films about girls' boarding schools are usually a puzzle to the Hays organization. Maedchen in Uniform introduced a new and controversial subject. The lesson which Eight Girls in a Boat might teach susceptible minors is that misbehavior is good fun with advantageous consequences. As something which Director Richard Wallace obviously tried to make a work of art, the picture is even more dubious than its moral because it is imitative, sentimental, insincere...
...left Italy because I could not bear the Mussolini regime. Although my students were loyal to me in my history classes at the University of Florence, fascist leaders sent blackshirts into my classes to disturb them. Today, it is impossible to teach in Italy without swearing allegiance to the government...
...present-day Italy, the schools teach that liberals like Mazzini and Cavour are fascists, just fore runners of great Musolini. Such a situation was intolerable to me. After I had spent a month in prison in 1925 for my liberal views, I decided to leave the country...
...told them to ask me a question. If Bacon wrote Shakespere, then who wrote Bacon? Of course, Mr. Samuel's face took on a comprehending grin, "of course, Professor Kittredge is only jesting. But I'm serious about this book. I'll give my fortune and my life to teach the lesson that is in it. Now here's my idea," he yanked his hat down on top of a pair of bushy eyebrows, "I'll give the University five hundred copies of my book--I guess five hundred would be enough--and if the University wants it can form...