Word: teaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tokyo's five-month-old tabloid had a ready explanation for its shocker. Editor Yoshio Kaneko was just doing his best to teach his readers Western democratic habits. U.S. nudist camps are noted for purity of thought, said Sun Photo Times; "wouldn't it be a good idea if the members of Japan's Diet [which includes 39 women] deliberated . . . while naked...
Busy boning up on Japan, Mrs. Vining is also collecting children's classics to take with her. Says she: "I will teach the Crown Prince the stories every American schoolchild knows, stories of Washington and of Longfellow and of American thoughts and ideals. The emphasis will be on a world without war, and nations working together for peace...
...Protestants the Bible is a primer in educational work. Said one missionary: "We prefer to teach [the Indians], to let them become aware of the world outside and of the Book of God without forcing it upon them." But Catholics, men like Bishop Ruesga argue, oppose not only the placing of the Bible in Indian hands, but education itself, fearing that knowledge will lead the Indians away from, the Church of Rome...
...Hallowell, 37, has a lot in common with a fellow Harvardman, Phillips Exeter's new Principal William G. Saltonstall, 40 (TIME, June 17). Both are tall (6 ft. 3 in.) and lean, with rugged Yankee faces. At Harvard they won crew and hockey letters, went on to teach at prep schools (Hallowell at Groton, Saltonstall at Exeter). Both served in the Pacific, ended up as lieutenant commanders...
...will also try to teach a little psychiatry to the family doctors. Said Dr. Robert Felix, chief mental hygienist in the U.S. Public Health Service, who is the council's executive officer: "It is just as essential that the general physician be able to handle mild emotional upsets as to be able to handle fractures or deliver babies...