Word: teached
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...beginning of each session, the director of the class--one of the seven or eight undergraduate instructors in each class of about 20 children--warms up the children and then begins to teach new steps to the group, Hernandez says. While the director teaches the steps, the other dance teachers dance alongside of the kids, helping them to learn the movements, Hernandez said...
...classes work best when the they are small, because it is easier for the Harvard students to get to know the children and help them with personal problems as well as teach them dance steps, Hernandez says. "It's nicer when you have a small group because no matter what, you can't have more teachers. You also get to know the kids better," she says...
...Teaching dance to fifth graders is not like taking advanced classes. The steps you teach them are simple. It's more of an exciting exchange between people," says Rebecca C. Shannon '89, one of Citystep's three directors. "You're teaching kids to be proud of their bodies...
...Nobody is questioning the value of continuing to teach the great works of Western culture," insists CIV Proponent Thomas Wasow, dean of undergraduate studies. The fear that just such a question was being raised, however, brought bellows of protest from academic conservatives like Education Secretary William Bennett. A devout classicist, he accused Stanford's revisionists of "academic intimidation," claiming that a "very vocal minority is attempting to overpower a less vocal majority." Dismantling the core curriculum, he warned, amounted to "trashing Plato and Shakespeare...
...Dalai Lama spends much of his time reflecting on how Tibetan Buddhism can teach, and learn from, other disciplines. He believes, for example, that Buddhism can show Marxism how to develop a genuine socialist ideal "not through force, but through reason, through a very gentle training of the mind, through the development of altruism." He sees many points of contact between his faith and "psychology, cosmology, neurobiology, the social sciences and physics. There are many things we Buddhists should learn from the latest scientific findings. And scientists can learn from Buddhist explanations. We must conduct research, and then accept...