Word: teach
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...obvious reason for their achievements is what they brought to the Peace Corps: greater maturity than most PCV's (they were 28 and 26 respectively when they joined) and the kind of background that would prove most useful in community development. Between them they were able to teach first aid, child care, swimming, carpentry and auto mechanics at the Casa del Obrero of Manta; in their spare time they managed to organize neighborhood cleanup campaigns, fight bubonic plague and build an oven for the local school's hot lunch program...
...Colorcasting will begin on a small scale on one of the BBC channels this fall, but it will take another three years or so before British color programming will rival America's. Apart from that, the BBC, with its emphasis on performance rather than sales, can teach its old colonies a thing...
...Berkeley, students have a knack for getting what they want. And what they clearly want is Ernest Becker. Calling him a "stimulating" teacher, a "fantastic speaker," and a man who "makes you go out of his class thinking," several hundred of his students last week staged a two-hour "teach in" after one of his lectures. They also organized a march on the chancellor's office, presented a petition signed by 2,000 students demanding that Becker be retained. When the anthropology department faculty insisted that they had neither the necessary funds nor the staff allotment to keep Becker...
...survey, The American High School Today, in which he found that only eight of the 55 high schools he had studied met his "minimum criteria" for acceptable quality. In a new survey of 2,024 schools, Conant reports that 40.3% now give courses in calculus, 49.5% teach the new physics, 92% offer remedial classes for lower-ability students, 99% offer music. Even more significant, about half of the schools have a 20-to-1 student-teacher ratio-a standard that Conant considers basic. On the other hand, he finds that only 11% of the schools make use of television...
...would teach it? Why, who else but the man who has written the four sex, diaries we've just finished reading, Robert H. Rimmer himself. Some of you may quibble that a man who has already managed to turn four fictional sex diaries into dull, tortured writing would not be the proper person to teach others how to write them. But tell the truth now, was your own Gen Ed section man such at hot shot? And Rimmer reads like an easy grader