Word: teaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Today Bethune-Cookman* is a four-year, co-ed college-with 450 students and an $800,000 campus. The emphasis is still on vocational training. Like Booker T. Washington, President Emeritus Bethune thinks Negro education's first job is to teach job skills to Negroes. (Most of Bethune-Cookman's 2,350 graduates are teachers...
...about the elections. It was reported that they were arresting many oppositionists. Was this true? The Major shook his head: "Every day we have cases of bandits attacking Government officials, plotting the collapse of the Polish Government. We must fight these bandits with their own weapons-terrorism. We must teach them that we mean to run the country in the people's interests, not in the interests of the landowners and financiers." He added: "It is true that a considerable part of the ignorant peasantry has fallen for Mikolajczyk's demagogy. That is what makes Mikolajczyk so dangerous...
...their consistent and unreserved devotion. The result is that their own children have been delivered back to their churches with a mentality that is not only unintelligent about religion but relatively incapacitated even to ask the questions out of which religion arises. . . ." The remedy, says Dr. Morrison, is to teach religion as a part of the public school curriculum, like history or economics...
...schooling. When an aunt invited one of the seven girls in the family to visit the wild Montana Territory, Alma was her last choice-but each of the others was afraid to venture into the country of cowboys & Indians. Nineteen-year-old Alma took the chance and stayed to teach, first in public school, later in Salt Lake City's Methodist seminary. When she wanted to preach as well, shocked Methodists told her to marry a preacher...
Examples of studio thoroughness: a dramatic academy, manned by five instructors, sweated to teach Smoky's cast of 40-odd horses how to register basic emotions for the camera (no tricks); the star's glossy black hide, which began to bleach in spots after several weeks on location in the Utah sun, had to be touched up periodically with walnut stain makeup...