Word: teach
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...windows to passersby with guffaws and cries of: "Here are some cheap Christmas presents. Get yours early!" Not all German Aryans countenanced this depravity. Said an Aryan Berlin housewife despondently as she watched Aryan children making off with the contents of a Jewish shop: "So that is how they teach our children to steal...
Last July, with an endowment from Crane Co.'s Cornelius Crane, an amateur anthropologist, Count Alfred opened his institute in Chicago to teach General Semantics to educators and maladjusted people. Meanwhile, in about a dozen schools, colleges and hospitals, his students also had begun to teach the new science. Last week was published a collection of papers reporting their accomplishments...
This process of advancing from one order of meaning to another, Korzybski calls abstracting. Purpose of his instruction is to make individuals conscious of this process, teach them that a word or symbol is not identical with the object it represents, slow up their automatic, conditioned responses to symbols. The concept of "identity," in Korzybski's view, is responsible for mankind's "false knowledge," harmful nervous reactions (e.g., a child who hates all men because it is mistreated by its father...
Most of today's famous fiddlers are Russian. By rights they should have been Hungarian. For most of them were pupils of a great Hungarian fiddle teacher who happened to do most of his teaching in Russia: the late Leopold Auer. For many generations Hungary's lazy Danubian capital, Budapest, has been as noted for fine fiddling as for goulash and Tokay. Hardly less famed than expatriate Pedagogue Auer was the late Jenö de Szalatna Hubay, who stayed at home to teach other Hungarian fiddlers how to fiddle. Through aristocratic, white-bearded Hubay's studio passed...
...Meadow Park, L. I., Dr. Wralter O. Robinson of Brooklyn's St. John's University held the first of a series of classes for Fair attendants in "pleasing and effective speech." His aim: "It is not our purpose to make orators of these people, but rather to teach all who shall have a share in publicizing the World's Fair to speak effectively in language as nearly as possible free from defects...