Word: teaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Embassy were of little help ("They had too much propaganda that America is wonderful. It is wonderful. But you don't throw it at the Poles that way. You lead them up to it"). Some of her pupils wanted to learn U.S. slang ("Anne is such a good teach"); others wanted to know about boogie-woogie...
Until last week the Polish Ministry of Education, which pays her way, had not interfered with what she tried to teach. But presumably she will run afoul of a new Polish law to test the party-line faithfulness of its teachers. Says Anne, who hopes she will be allowed another year on the job: "If I succeed in having even 20 Poles speak English well and understand about America, then I'll have done a good job for the first time in my life...
...make the crucial excisions. He invariably operates barehanded. Rubber gloves, he says, destroy the delicate feel of his work. A Sauerbruch operation is a continuous bellow; he shouts at his assistants, shouts for his instruments. Once, irked by a clumsy assistant, he slashed the fellow with his scalpel to teach him a lesson...
...positive information to the child. We ignore the fact that, unlike brute animals whose sex behavior is largely instinctual, the rational animal's sex practices are learned. . . . Catholics have much to learn from Freudians regarding sex development and the capital importance of early sexual experiences. . . . Indeed, Freudians can teach much regarding the entire role of family figures in the upbringing of a child, regarding the ideal father, mother, brother and sister relationships. They have studied these matters intensely, whereas far too much of our ascetical literature echoes the monastic viewpoint of life in the religious community...
...into the business back in 1897, when all its own pupils were quarantined in their homes by a whooping-cough epidemic. Since then,, mothers all over the world have switched to Calvert. Its courses, complete with textbooks, paper, pencils, pictures and prints-and parent-proof instructions on how to teach, tell stories, deal with disobedience and sex problems-have inched up the Yangtse, been carried on native backs through jungles, been dropped by parachute over snow-covered wastelands...