Word: teach
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...about towns along the north shore of the Gulf, isolated fishing villages unconnected by roads of any sort, abandoned in the wilds of the Canadian sub-Arctic. And he told me about a program that he had started in 1961 through which people spent summers in these towns, teaching vital skills that no one up there knew how to teach. Like swimming. Every year, several fishermen die when they fall overboard five feet from land and are unable to swim to save themselves. Because they've never learned, because the water is so cold...
...Tyrol. The love of her life, Tonio, a young peasant who wears short pants and sings a high C at any sign of affection, joins the troop to be near her-alas, just as Marie's mother, a marquise, shows up, claims her and takes her away to teach her how to curtsy instead of salute. At the end, the lovers are reunited and everyone joins in a rejoicing chorus: "Hurrah for France...
Birth of a Nation is a political movie, espousing political ideas--the incapacity of black people, and the consequent right of white ones to teach them their place--that remain influential today. A showing of such a movie is an appropriate time for mobilizing against these ideas and advocating ideas opposed to them. The potential of Saturday night's action needs to be judged in this context--not in an artificial isolation permitting it to be lumped with every action that has ever set an explicit limit on free expression...
...Stewart Thau, associate professor of Philosophy and chairman of the department at Syarcuse. White charged that the graduate program had been "diluted" by other disciplines such as linguistics, that the students it admitted to the Ph.D. program were not qualified, and that the department did not teach philosophy...
Inwagen concluded his letter, "You present us with a difficult pedagogical problem. Before we can teach you anything, we must first dispel your delusions of philosophical grandeur. But you are so arrogant in you ignorance that I doubt whether this is possible...