Word: teaching
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...last count--and it can be said that in some respects they thrive. At the turn-of-the-century the U.S. Indian population was under 300,000; today it is 1.4 million and climbing. Do the tribes know some thing we don't? Do they have something to teach Mr. Reagan--not, to be sure, about getting ahead in the world, but perhaps aboutnot getting ahead? Is it possible that life is more fruitfully lived in the Indians' circular way (the turning of the earth) than in our accustomed linear fashion (onward and upward...
...GENERALLY THERAPISTS are well adjusted to the society in which they live. I don't think that's a good thing," says Jeffrey M. Masson '64 "I think that the society in which we live is pretty decadent, corrupt. And what one really wants to teach people is to recognize that and take some sort of stand against it. I would teach people to question everything, don't take any shit from anybody and don't listen to authority...
...youth of America?" He is mulling offers from at least one American university to teach here, and he has a 16-year-old son who wants to go to Princeton...
...These American students, they are wonderful," exclaims the maestro. "I ask myself, why just teach the youth of Germany...
...accepting a major contention of the pioneering astronomer: that the Bible does not contain specific scientific truths, but speaks metaphorically about such events as the creation or the movement of the sun. As Galileo said, quoting a churchman of his day, "The intention of the Holy Spirit is to teach how to go to heaven and not how go the heavens." That is surely a credo any contemporary astronomer, indeed any 20th century scientist, can accept. -By Frederic Golden. Reported by Wilton Wynn/Rome