Word: teaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...explained his needs to UNRRA officials. The 100 girls he wanted for his mill must be Roman Catholics and unmarried virgins. (An Army chaplain talked him out of the second requirement.) Once he got them to St. Georges, he promised, he would house them at Le Foyer, teach them about Canada, pay them the legal minimum of 20? an hour. He plans to spend $42,500 to fly the girls to Canada. "I can't wait for boats," says Ludger Dionne...
Jimmy Yen's problem today is not only to teach new readers, but to find reading matter for those he has taught. With money from Publisher Marshall Field, he hopes to build up a people's press to provide his millions of "fellow scholars" (graduates of the people's schools) with cheap books in Basic Chinese. His goal: in ten years, only 10% illiteracy in China...
This week, at 56, Marc Connelly took on a new job: associate professor of playwriting in Yale's graduate School of Fine Arts, succeeding 68-year-old Walter Prichard Eaton. Connelly, who never went to college himself, will teach "Drama 47," a "professional" course started and made famous (at Harvard, then at Yale) by the late Professor George P. Baker. He will help 15 students dissect each others' plays; Yale will produce the best ones...
...Sundays in the country Rank drives five miles to the Reigate Methodist Church (in wartime he cycled to save petrol) to teach his Sunday-school class. The Reverend J. Eric Dixon does not consider Arthur an unmixed blessing. "The press," he snorts, "is always down here badgering us. That's why it's such a bad Sunday school." But the children climb all over the teacher. Chirped little Peter Robinson: "He's a real smasher...
...four can neither read nor write. They speak a Creole dialect of French, live in thatched huts with dirt floors, suffer from worms, decaying teeth, malaria and tuberculosis. A UNESCO expert, armed with films, books, posters and phonograph records, will work with a Haitian Government team to teach the fundamentals of hygiene, flood control, modern agriculture, the three Rs. UNESCO will pass on what it learns to teams in Asia, Africa, South America...