Word: teach
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fact, professors often teach outside the discipline they did graduate work in. At St. John's it is not uncommon to find a historian teaching calculus...
...case, says Baltimore, "we are at a critical point in the progress of the epidemic" that requires an "intensive national effort" to keep AIDS from spreading further. The panel urged an all-out educational campaign to teach the populace through ads, and above all in schools, how to avoid the risk of infection. Sex education, said the panel, has become literally a life-and-death matter, and educators should use "whatever vernacular is required" to get the message across. One message, more or less in the vernacular, has already been supplied by Koop: a "rubber (condom) should always be used...
...houses: "In the faces of a group of teenagers who stood under a tree and watched her and Bruce passing, she saw a dullness she thought was sculpted by years of television, of parents who at meals and in the evenings had nothing to say to them, nothing to teach them...
Readers who insist that a book teach them something of momentous importance will find this novel more than adequate. The quirks and unexpected twists of life are examined with care that exposes layer upon layer of meaning. Loving family relationships, studied unsparingly, pulse with hidden resentments. Social conventions--"exchanging commonplaces and untruths"--are scrutinized to reveal the complexity beneath cool facades. Courtship, marriage, remarriage, cohabitation, bachelorhood and spinsterhood--all achieve an encompassing inventive dimension...
...time he was 27, Kozol became a permanent substitute teacher for a fourth grade class in Roxbury, a post that allowed him to teach regularly without the required teaching credentials...