Word: teach
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...person and she considered her first attempts at commercialization in 1960 more in terms of a religious crusade: "Why have I dared to believe that reading down the page, at speeds held by many experts to be impossible, can be done? Perhaps it is because my deep religious convictions teach me that 'a man is saved no faster than he gains knowledge;' that 'no man can be saved in ignorance;' that 'the glory of God is intelligence.'" For Mrs. Wood, speed reading has always been next to godliness and she thought of speed reading instruction as God's work...
...only way loyalists of the Reading Dynamics enterprises can counter this evidence is by pointing to the small percentage of tuitions refunded. As the official pamphlet says, "The success of Reading Dynamics lies on its ability to teach successfully over 96 per cent of its pupils." This argument is valid only if there is a direct correlation between reading success and tuitions refunded. Unfortunately, there is an amazingly large gap between...
...executive committee is now studying the possibility of establishing three projects next fall, according to President Benjamin A. Barnes '68. One committee would organize Puerto Ricans in Boston's South End. Another committee may be working in Jefferson Park, a housing project in North Cambridge. A third committee may teach either in the Cambridge Friends School or in Somerville -- a new area...
Vorenberg, who has been on leave all this year, will continue as executive director of the commission until the reports are completed. He plans to teach and study in Europe this summer and will return to Harvard in the fall. Massachusetts Attorney General Elliot L. Richardson has already engaged him to help in a study of criminal justice in the state when he returns
...teach the intangibles, Challenge has tried to keep its style informal. A biannual comment about a grade replaces a conventional report card. Classes are small and discipline tends to be lax. Teachers often change around their lesson plans. If students bring in an interesting magazine article, most Challenge teachers would scrap their class outline...