Word: teaching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...State's especially created National Bank for Ejidol Credit. Scarcity of water has always been the curse of Mexico, and the State began to erect numerous irrigation dams and supplementary public works which today sprout half-completed in all parts of Mexico. Education was stressed to teach peons, accustomed for centuries to kiss the hand of local Mexican bigwigs, to become upstanding armed collectivists...
...admirer from Manhattan thus : "The child must learn the secrets of Labor. . . . The child must be taught a sense of the collective. Reading and writing are sterile unless they are used socially. ... In most instances, the child's parents are both illiterate and individualistic. Our problem is to teach the child what he does not learn at home...
...burly Frank Chodorov, quondam schoolteacher, traveling salesman, manufacturer, editor, who constantly has a pipe or cigar in his mouth. Director Chodorov last week had a simple explanation for Georgism's revival: its simplicity. So simple that the school claims the man-in-the-street can be trained to teach it, Henry George's doctrine, according to Mr. Chodorov, sweeps aside the "academic gibberish" with which orthodox practitioners of the "dismal" science of economics clothe their confusion. Director Chodorov also claimed that the Henry George School is free from propaganda: "We don't make the students swallow anything...
taught in Holland and Sweden. In its week of deliberations and celebrations, the Kongreso made one little, one giant stride into new territories: They persuaded London's County Council to provide night-school courses in Esperanto, France's Government to urge all State schools to teach Esperanto...
...Selznick Pictures Make Happy Hours"), kingpin of the industry during and just after the War, whose major worries, before he failed in 1923, were: 1) how to get stars like Clara Kimball Young, Olive Thomas and Owen Moore to act for as little as possible; and 2) how to teach the business to his sons, who used to do odd jobs around the office. Hollywood gossips last week were wondering whether Myron's latest scheme might not cause his father, who believed in sharing as few profits as he could, to turn over in his grave...