Word: teached
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...purpose, or one hope, of the U.S. occupation of Germany is to teach the Germans the ways of democracy. Are the Germans learning? The ten-man U.S. education mission to Germany, in a 24,000-word report last week, offered faint praise for what had been accomplished so far, faint hope of an early end to the job. The educators (among them American Council on Education President George Zook, Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr) found nothing to "encourage the hope of a quick fulfillment of the responsibilities which our nation . . . has assumed...
...Army had more than 300,000 illiterates: in G.I. slang, they were called "jugheads." But they did not stay jug-heads long. The Army boasted that it could teach illiterate draftees to read and write in eight weeks...
...Wisconsin, Frederick Merk quite naturally followed in the footsteps of Turner, 1893 author of the attitude - smashing "Significance of the Frontier in American History," for the latter had been a professor at Wisconsin. His influence there was profound even before it spread throughout the "corpus of American history teaching," says Professor Merk, who, when he came to Harvard in 1918, found Turner here and worked in his seminar. In 1921 he began to teach what is now History 62, sharing it with his older colleague. Along with teaching the first half of Histoy 5 and writing books and papers...
...courses were too narrow or taught in monotones, and the Gov and Ec was too specialized, or somehow irrelevant to his own thinking. They seemed to have no roots. He had stumbled upon General Education. He liked it. There were roots and there were teachers who seemed anxious to teach. It made him wish he had it to do all over again as he entered the yard to grow in wisdom. I. A. Richards spoke of the "Iliad" and the sources of western culture, communicating with a passion. Beer, the same Sam Beer who was once his Gov 1 section...
...worked in the American Embassy and legation in Belgium during 1920. In the years 1925-26, he was chief of the U. S. Department of Commerce in Europe and lecturer on European trade and economics at Georgetown University. In 1927 he returned to Harvard to teach Slavonic and Germanic languages...