Word: teaching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...While speaking of experience, I would like to say that I consider it the essential requirement of an actor. It is what every aspiring young player should try his utmost to get. Your dramatic schools are fine, and much that they teach is worthwhile, but without experience I would never consider hiring an actor to play in any production...
...motives as lying; for if the perpetuity of the race rests on sex motives, then the continuing existence of the race rests on economic motives. They underlie and color all our conduct. Such a fundamental subject certainly should be taught with thoroughness. The question is how to teach it with thoroughness...
...education of the older generation were undesirable, not only because they were passive, but also because they proved themselves impracticable with the advent of mass education. Lectures grew more formal, great numbers of text books were written from the lectures, and teachers of younger grades were expected to teach by expounding them. The utter futility of this as an educational method has begun to dawn on the whole academic world...
...never to admit that the Exchange is less than perfect. One morning last week all Wall Street buzzed with the news that the first of these rules was to be discarded, that the Exchange was about to launch a big publicity campaign by radio, movies, lectures, and advertising to teach the public that the Exchange is a benevolent and useful institution. Even brokers guffawed at such a naive effort to avert the wrath of Congress. Much embarrassed. President Richard Whitney announced that "No such program had been approved or even considered." Someone, it appeared, had proposed...
...Emanuel Smith, foe of the Roosevelt program, had gone with two Catholic bishops to the House of Morgan to arrange a loan for his Empire State Building. Al Smith warmly denied this, adding: "From boyhood I was taught that a Catholic priest was under the divine injunction to 'teach all nations' the word of God. That includes the divine Commandment: 'Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor...