Word: teaching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...were some course at Harvard which filled the need for information of the average student. There has long been a need of a course which would survey the whole scientific field from an untechnical point of view, a course which would give one a perspective on scientific history, and teach one to appreciate the significance of modern science...
...University is going to feed a man "roast beef, au jus" and "au gratin potatoes" at the same meal, the least the French department can do is teach him how correctly to describe his predicament. The French A student is prepared to read "L'Illustration", but he cannot quote, without the largest misgivings, a "New Yorker" article mentioning "crepes suzettes," or the "joie...
...realistic appraisals of native culture, political and economic conditions, colonial administration, the heat and discomfort of the country. Among the whites Geoffrey Gorer encountered lack of ambition, futility, occasional brutality; among the blacks, resignation, degeneration. He found French colonial methods less successful than the English, primarily because the English teach the natives to read, and make colonial administration a career while the French look upon it only as a temporary ordeal. In studying the natives, with the insight Benga provided, Geoffrey Gorer came to the conclusion that white men cannot understand the mental processes of true savages, who have...
...excellently in themselves, fail to appeal because they need some of the concretizing of 1a, and yet 1a in itself needs some of the vaporizing of 1c and 1d and 1c. The course which combines all of these three would have to narrow its scope somewhat, but it would teach the method and general principles better to the amateur...
...believes that the legislature has the right to tell the teachers what they may or may not teach, but that it transcended its rights by making it innovatory to take an oath, thus bringing in the "pains of Hellfire." "It was unconstitutional for them to do this," he added, "for two reasons, cruel and unusual punishment and extra territoriality...