Word: teach
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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American schools teach fewer foreign languages than those in other countries, they teach less non-American history, they teach less science and math. And these failings in the educational system have important consequences for America's political and economic relations with other countries...
Eaton says that the Museum's staff employs several members who are acquainted not only with science but, more importantly, with how to teach children about nature without making it seem as if they are being educated...
...ability to pique childrens' interests and teach them without the atmosphere of the stuffy class room is what Eaton sees as vital to Summer Splash's success. If the children enjoy their visit to the water exhibit, then they will ask to come again. But, Eaton adds, were it not for the cooperation of the surrounding business community and for modern trends in child raising, the exhibit would not have been as successful as it has been...
...scene of the movie, the monk starts quizzing Elda about her belief in God, looking for a chink in the impenetrable facade she presents to him. She responds by demanding that he teach her to write; when he asks her what she would write about, she declares with dreamlike intensity that she would write about leaves and plants and flowers and all their wondrous healing qualities. As her eyes stare into the distance, presumably lost in contemplation at the amazing power of the written word, the viewer cannot help but be somewhat skeptical...
...their seats directly into a protest rally. The framing story is the trial of a brutal, ignorant police chief in rural Texas for the killing of a young Chicano suspected of burglary. Morton's other plays mingle reality and daffy fantasy, human characters and cartoonish stereotypes in order to teach -- or preach -- the Hispanic history of the Americas. Says he: "I've seen the glaring difference between the First World and the Third World, and it weighs heavy on my soul...