Word: teach
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...World, described the organization's approach as "wrongheaded and harmful" and urged it to "shut down the operation before it goes any further." Writing in Contentions, her committee's bulletin, Decter argued that in the classroom, accuracy is not the issue. "There is no accurate way," she noted, "to teach the Federalist Papers . . . Bias is something that anyone with opinions can be accused of. How can a person be qualified to teach without opinions...
Levine said department members are still discussing the possibility of creating two additional semester-long courses, one on the art of tribal societies and another on the art and architecture of the Americas. But the department will likely need to hire additional faculty members to teach these courses...
Fuller says the private class allows him to teach in a way which is "more precisely tailored to the one student you are teaching." He says he uses the opportunity to talk to the student rather than to lecture, describing his method as "Socratic browbeating. I want to make sure that he's gotten some of the factual information, then we explore the interpretive aspects...
Sponsored by Harvard's International Relations Council, the conference aims to teach students how to reconcile different opinions, said Jonathan M. Levine '86 of Leverett House, the conference's secretary general. Levine also said the conference tries to teach students not only how countries react but also how to apply this knowledge to their own lives...
...Skinnerean flourish, computers have taken over the roles once filled by biological units called parents. Electronic gizmos can teach your kid to talk, count, spell, add and read as well as to dodge alien fire and blow up spacecraft. But will these toys tell your child that there is a difference between bleach and Sprite? Can "Whiz Kid" instruct your child not to try to swallow the Nerf Pool Cue and Balls? Can "Little Professor" teach your youngster that Lhasa Apsos can cannot survive the intense heat and radiation barrage found inside a microwave oven...