Word: teaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...psychology, which has recently been made an Honors school at Oxford, snorts that "economics isn't a science, but a political engine. Many economists simply fit their science to their political ideas." His idea of a college education is closer to Cardinal Newman's: "A University should teach universal knowledge...
...have been told again and again that Catholicism must insist on the obligation of the state not only to teach religion but to teach the 'true religion.' . . . We Protestants oppose this, not only because the condition of religious pluralism in America makes it quite unfeasible, but also because we believe that monopoly in anything, including monopoly in religion, is a source of corruption. It is a particular source of corruption in religion...
Sponsored jointly by the Student Council and the International Student Service, the program brought advanced students from 16 European nations into contact with an American faculty assembled to teach them "as much about American and American life as can be taught in six weeks...
...spare time, hard-working Mrs. Vining has been studying Japanese. She had been hired merely to teach Akihito English (he has Japanese instructors in everything else), but she found it hard to get the prince to pay attention. So many learned professors and eminent lawyers had lectured Akihito on so many weighty matters that his learning edge was dulled...
...Vining tried a novel approach. She explained: "One of the first things I did was to teach him to play tennis in English." That made the language seem of some use. Then she got him interested in games involving a map of the world and miniature ships. "The ships follow routes: they stop at a port and unload a cargo of rice and take on a cargo of coffee. They run into fog and have to turn back. There is a lot of vocabulary practice in the natural talk of playing the game. ... I teach everything in English. Then, when...