Word: teaching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Every biologist," he says, "knows that his science-the life-sciences-can extend the mental horizon, give better health, improve the economic status and promote the social understanding of any people or nation that will teach the subject adequately to its youth. The peoples of India or China are restrained far more by ignorance of simple biological truth than by unfamiliarity with letters, arithmetic or the rules of trade...
...theory of evolutionists as to whether man is descended from the monkey has been over these many years.* Such teaching is discredited and is not representative of science and so will not be found in our textbooks. The public schools teach biology. In this study, the difference of the species is indicated...
After three decades of research on the heredity mechanism of the genes and chromosomes he has a strong opinion on the first thing that biology should teach humanity: "All men are created unequal. No politics or poetry or dogma in this; just a straight clean fact of prime importance to decent thinking on human social problems; and possibly a fact that must be learned, digested and assimilated . . . before unreason ceases to be a threat to all forms of democratic government...
Curator MacLeish also noted that: 1) no attempt is made to teach journalism as such; 2) the Fellowships are still "experimental"; 3) "The assumption that journalists with questions to ask may properly be allowed to dispense with ordinary scholastic requirements has not as yet been overthrown...
Last week, fearing that intolerance is spreading over the world so rapidly that little time is left to head it off, New York City's Board of Education decided to try a short cut, ordered tolerant Superintendent Harold George Campbell to begin teaching tolerance at once. To the principals of the city's 1,000 schools, Superintendent Campbell promptly sent an order to teach tolerance to the city's 1,250,000 school children twice each month. Principals are to hold school assemblies describing the contributions of all races and nationalities...