Word: teach
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last September I had the chance to teach some children how to write poetry on Cleveland's East Side and to test out some of Kenneth Koch's theories about how it should be done. I first came across Koch a couple of years ago in his book, Wishes, Lies and Dreams: Teaching Children to Write Poetry, a collection of kids' poems prefaced by some lengthy remarks on teaching. I was intrigued with Koch's central idea: people's imaginations are more readily available to them when they are young; it's important to tap that flow before...
...Angela Davis movement. Still, Angela Davis is a member of the Communist Party USA. She openly denounces the "corporate pigs" and capitalist system that allows them to exploit her brothers and sisters. In 1970, Gov. Ronald Reagan and the UCLA Board of Regents sought to fire her from her teaching post at UCLA and they eventually did not renew her contract because she is a member of the party. Public opinion polls in California at the time indicated that a majority of citizens felt the state universities should not allow Communists to teach. It was this anti-communist emotionalism...
...deplores "the kind of '60s liberalism that involves pushing money after every problem." In education, he is against permissive systems that "teach kids algebra hi the third grade and remedial reading in the twelfth grade." On law and order: "Let's get back to the old-fashioned idea that an individual is responsible for his actions." On drugs: "If people want to get high, they should turn to meditation...
...speech to officials of the Associated Harvard Alumni, Bamberg said that many undergraduates are capable of helping to teach courses despite the fact that "some view the idea of undergraduates teaching with alarm...
...said, volunteers from Canada and the United States had begun to teach in ponds, had even convinced towns to build their own primitive swimming pools in which towns-people could be taught the basics of survival swimming. And there were other volunteers running a canoe camp for children from all along the coast, teaching them how to stay alive in the wilderness that is a very real part of their everyday lives...