Word: teached
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Teaching had hardly changed since Ptolemy's day. Education was by rote and rod. A young, ugly, runty, sad-eyed Swiss scholar wanted to do something about it. Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi had already thought of preaching as a career-and his first sermon was so bad, the tale goes, that he laughed out loud in the middle of it. He tried law, and flopped again. At 22, in the year 1768, he bought a farm-and failed at that, too. But while his crops went to ruin, he filled his house with waifs, strays and farm kids, and began...
...discovery that women were sewing uniforms for Canadian letter carriers for 3? an hour while Government subcontractors made 100% profits. As a consequence, Canada's great French Canadian Prime Minister, Sir Wilfrid Laurier, asked King to become deputy minister of labor. King passed up a chance to teach at Harvard, and went to Ottawa...
...Navy's orders were to teach them seamanship in a hurry. But only about 100 of the 1,000 Chinese could speak English, and some 300 of the rest could not even write their native Chinese...
Last week, the University of Chicago announced that Tugwell would teach political science and direct a new department of civic planning there, starting next July 1. His job, says his new boss, Dean Robert Redfield, will be to develop planning as "a science instead of guesswork . . . [to provide] special research instead of hunches, for instance, to predict population changes . . . [to] develop a coordinated view of the community as a whole...
André Maurois, best-selling litterateur (Ariel, Byron, The Art of Living), wartime French refugee in Manhattan, and more popular abroad than in France, prepared to move west, to teach at Kansas City U. Subject: European novelists...