Word: teach
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Such an opportunity arrived when one of her Cornell professors travelled to Jerusalem to teach at Hebrew University. He needed someone to accompany him and care for his children, and so Mylroie took off a year from school to fill the position. She immediately fell in love with the city, she says. After six months Mylroie moved on to study in Munich, but she "missed Jerusalem--its...warmth and immediacy...
...academic decline began with some crisis: the death of a parent, an episode of sexual abuse. During their daily 5 1/2 hours, students do regular schoolwork and take part in a much praised program developed by Dr. Deborah Prothrow-Stith, the state's public health commissioner, that tries to teach them how to discharge anger without resorting to violence. The school also uses scare-tactic "field trips." At Boston's Charles Street jail, for instance, students talk to inmates about prison life and learn that offenders as young as 14 can be tried as adults in Massachusetts. Explains Tucker...
...areas remain economically, socially and civically unprepared," he says. Public education is now on trial in America, and many educators feel that the decade ahead may be the last real chance for the nation's schools. That is, without doubt, the most urgent lesson that Principal Joe Clark can teach...
...Japanese artists should return the compliment; anyhow it was inevitable, once the traditional isolation of Japan was broken by the Emperor Meiji's decree, in 1868, that "knowledge shall be sought throughout the world." As J. Thomas Rimer points out in a fascinating catalog essay to this show, the teaching of Western art in Meiji Tokyo began in 1876 mainly as a "scientific" discipline. But before long the bizarre techniques of the mysterious Occident developed their own momentum for Japanese artists, and particularly the Western way of depicting forms by smearing a kind of sticky, slow-drying mud on cloth...
Like the young Japanese designer today who dreams of retracing Issey Miyake's path to New York City, students in Tokyo then yearned for Paris, the capital of modernity. By the turn of the century there was a tenacious Japanese painters' colony in Paris, and the big academic teaching studios that catered to foreign students -- Cormon's, Carolus-Duran's, Collin's -- all had, in addition to their stock of Americans, a number of Japanese students. Many of the students would have preferred to study with the new masters whose work was creating a modernist sensibility, but Van Gogh...