Word: teachers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sumer. He must decide, for example, how many bushels of grain to store, how many to distribute to his people, how many to plant for the next crop. The computer informs him of the effects. It recently told one inept king: "Your population has decreased to zero. Call the teacher." Both in and out of class, a complex logic-stimulating game called "Wff 'n proof," played with cubes on a board, is becoming a campus...
...Cellist Gregor Piatagorsky is wrong. Sergei Rachmaninoff [May 13] did take students. One of them was the well-known pianist, Ruth Slenczynska, who describes her lessons with Rachmaninoff in her book Forbidden Childhood. As a teacher, he was apparently a painstaking technician who, after lessons, served his student tea in a glass...
...Provincial Education Officer Thavil Chanlawong, one of the northeast's most effective anti-Communist workers. In one Nakhon Phanom district, the terrorists have killed 16 villagers in the past year, kidnaped six more, and early this month shot the village doctor. The eyes and heart of an assassinated teacher were gouged out and stuck on sticks beside his corpse to intimidate other teachers...
...Alan sits at home and attends class via a two-way telephone hookup, paid for by the school board. Teachers and students must speak loudly so that the apparatus, which is moved from room to room, can pick up the voices. A teacher writing on a blackboard must be sure to pronounce what she writes, and to explain diagrams. Alan, unable to get recognition by raising his hand, just interrupts by phone to recite. It's all rather distracting, but at least Alan will be able to take his final exams, graduate, and go on to use his scholarship...
...recent telecast, Rudd described in deadly detail a Soviet sports-instructors' course, "which lasts some four years and involves 4,000 hours of class' room study. The curriculum is one which might well strike an American gym teacher as impossible if not insane. The students are required to take the following courses: the history of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union; the philosophy of Marx and Lenin; Marxist political economy; the fundamentals of scientific Communism; a foreign language; biochemistry; anatomy, including the dissection of cadavers; the history of pedagogics; the theory of physical culture; the organization...