Word: teached
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From his pulpit Father used to deplore "the duckwaddle or bandmaster's style of carrying the processional cross." And when Isaac Wrubel, who owned a clothing store, asked him to take his five sons into the choir and teach them a little religion -any religion-on the side, Father said he'd teach them Isaac's Jewish religion. "The Old Testament is good enough for me," he said...
After 34 years on college faculties, Dean Harry J. Carman of Columbia had to admit his distress. Last week at a Manhattan meeting of educators, he spelled it out: too few college professors and instructors know how to teach. He conceded that, as a class, college faculty members know a lot about a lot of things; but too many of them are "departmental-minded" people, who are "without ability to inspire...
...because of overcrowded classrooms or overloaded schedules that teachers are falling down on the job, said Dean Carman. The big reason is that teachers themselves are not being taught to teach. Said he: "We have persisted in the assumption . . . that good teachers are born, hence cannot be made . . . The truth of the matter is that teachers can be made, but at present are not being made, or are being made badly...
Ceresol and his assistant planned to spend a week studying "the new dignity of modern gambling"-and Nevada's odds. With a movie camera and a tape recorder, they took down the patter and actions around dice tables, hoped to use it to teach Monte Carlo's croupiers to talk and act like those in Nevada. Ceresol had his doubts that fast and reckless craps would ever appeal to the dignified European gambler. For that matter, Monte Carlo's rules would not be too appealing to Americans. Said Ceresol: "We will take back your game...
...Britain, the decision on how much sex education to teach in the nation's schools is up to local authorities; last week Britons were arguing the subject furiously. One row had flared up when a 14-year-old unwed mother traced part of her troubles to the mothercraft course in her East Sussex school, designed "to teach girls the care of young babies...