Word: teaching
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
This is nothing short of revolution in ski technique, for the first things U. S. ski masters teach neophytes are the stem turn and the stem-Christiania, executed by braking with one ski, then edging the other over. Pure "Christies" (now learned after stemming is mastered) involve no stemming, but are accomplished by swinging the weight of the body while thrusting one ski forward. They are more graceful and faster than stem turns, or the other great ski maneuver-the Telemark...
...Slogum fixed him up neatly: She went to the Pole, tried to buy the girl for her brothel, with the result that Ward was half killed the next time he came courting. When her daughter Annette sneaked off with a poor neighbor boy named Rene, Mother Slogum decided to teach both children a lesson, sent her brutal brother and two sons out to give Rene "a good scare." But even Mother Slogum was frightened when she heard they had castrated...
...Faculty were chary to a Westerner coming here to teach Harvard professors how to teach, and Hanus was forced to work alone. His courses, which did not count towards a degree, were given as a part of the Philosophy Department's curiousness...
...fault with this program was that the training, solely in the hands of the School, placed more weight on courses in education than on the subject which the young teacher expected to teach...
...beginning of cooperation in teaching teachers ought to break down the old barriers between the School and other departments. Some day soon the School will seek more cooperation, when it asks the School of Public Administration to help it train superintendents. Teaching should be an important concern of every one in any way connected with education, for no university can advance learning, nor disseminate knowledge, unless its system of education can act with freedom and integrity. The understanding of educational policy, which even transcends the importance of "teaching teachers to teach," is necessary to the very keeping of American civilization...