Word: teach
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...idea is to be able to teach at a distance and to be able to engage in Socratic teaching, the kind of interaction that takes place in classrooms," said Assistant Professor of Mathematics Daniel L. Goroff, one of the Harvard coordinators of the project...
...teleteaching system was tested last year in a Extension School mathematics course. "I was actually very impressed with how much [students in the test course] learned and how easy it was to teach this way," said Deborah Hughes Hallett, one of the instructors...
...Chirac, who was visiting Spain, made clear French resentment of what it regards as hypocritical American nagging. Said Chirac, with heavy sarcasm: "France has not negotiated and will not negotiate with terrorist groups and takers of hostages. I don't know what others do, including those who want to teach lessons to everybody else...
Mitchell and white classmate Erin Fields organized a racism teach-in at Mount Holyoke that drew 600 students last week. The teach-in came a few days after similar discussions at Smith College in Northampton that attracted 2000 students...
...finally had the opportunity to break down the culture barriers when a schoolteacher in the village asked him to teach an adult English class she was organizing. He gladly agreed. The first day of the class, Sandburg recalls smiling, "everybody in the village came--the priest, the mayor and his three daughters, the feuding grocery store owners, the pharmacist and his girlfriend." Word of his class spread across the area, and gradually the local Italians began to trust him, talk to him, and even help him with his fieldwork...