Word: teaching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trait of the worst-they only accept the word of Germans. The rest of the human race for them consists of four or five billion Jews, who cannot be expected to do justice to Germans. Only through the pressure of Germans will Germany be changed. This fact may teach a hard lesson, but it is one that will have to be learned. When Germans universally find that the universe detests their masters, and that precisely these masters-no one else-have made life unbearable for them, then we may look for a change, and not before. Let the fair play...
Said Playwright Shaw: "I am going to teach Americans one of the things they don't know-how to put English drama on the screen. Every word will be written by me. Not the least regard will be paid to American ideas, except to avoid them as much as possible...
...budding mathematician attempts to change his section, he will find that this is quite impossible because no two instructors cover the field in the same order. And not only do the section men assert their independence in the matter of order, but they also differ in their exams and teaching technique. On the one hand there are men who make every effort to teach, to clarify the subject to even the slowest student; on the other hand there are those who merely lecture, treating any question as an inexcusable interruption. Of course the mathematical genius can learn under any system...
...measures of Weber's Sonata op. 39. Concertgoers who had long marveled at Pianist Rosenthal's strength, speed and musical under-standing now marveled at his endurance. Many a great virtuoso of the keyboard has bitten the dust since 1888. But lion-jawed Moriz Rosenthal could still teach tricks to pianists half his age, still held his place among the world's top pianists...
...last fortnight's Tablet Dr. Scanlan reported that Professor Arnold "urged an established church in the U. S. and sought to dictate what type of religion the churches should teach. It was a Hitler gesture." In the issue before that, Editor Scanlan had printed the evidence for his extraordinary belief-a speech by Thurman Arnold in which that able lawyer, using imagery drawn from his widely-quoted book. The Folklore of Capitalism, had said...