Word: teach
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...another great study he demolished the adage that "you can't teach an old dog new tricks." He proved that man's learning speed declines very little between 25 and 45 years, very slowly after that...
...Lake started to teach the Bible to the Undergraduates. At the beginning his class was small, numbering fifty or less students, but recently it has become more and more popular, until at one time it neared 300 students. This fall 195 men signed...
Adopted by the Faculty after long study of the findings of special committee, the new plan aims to teach the fundamentals in the first two years, and thus encourage work along lines of individual interest in the final year...
Besides, the slip of the tongue is to the radio broadcast as the typographical error is to the printed page. To paraphrase, it is hard to teach an old speechmaker new verbal tricks, or to accustom him to an accepted pronunciation when he has been in the habit of using another. And as the radio magnifies so many things, it magnifies these mistakes. Some peculiarities in the mouths of celebrated persons have become so famous that the speaker dare not change them without risking the charge of affectation. In this connection, a famous speaker whose "raddio" was a standing subject...
...more and more reading is necessary to make a living. Today a private secretary has to do some 500% more reading than in 1900. Because inefficient reading is responsible for 60% of all failures in school, $612 of every $1,000 spent for primary schooling is spent to teach reading. Yet one-half the adult population of the U. S. reads with difficulty. Eye defects are partly to blame. So are poverty of vocabulary and fuzzy thinking. Major reason for reading inefficiency, however, is bad reading habits...