Word: teaching
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...about trying to control students' artistic directions. After a program or student project has been funded, for example, her office backs off and does not try to influence them. "What we can provide on a permanent basis--what students can't provide for themselves--is bringing artists here to teach." Mayman says, explaining her priorities...
...mowed lawns, or shoveled snow (depending on the climate), in order to make a few dollars to spend on candy and baseball cards and such? "What an enterprising youngster you are," one of your parents probably said to you at the time, adding, "Small-scale risk-capital endeavors will teach you the pleasures and pitfalls of cash-flow management...
...through a series of trenches to reach his home, from which he takes potshots at Suq al Gharb out of a carefully sandbagged upper-story window. Walid says of his six-year-old daughter, who has neatly twined pigtails and the only clean clothes in the house: "I will teach her to hate the Phalangists and how to kill them." Oscar, a Phalangist commander in Suq al Gharb, has kept members of his family and some of his pets at his headquarters. He scoops up his eight-year-old son, who has just finished playing with a plastic six-shooter...
...students interviewed feel that Harvard's most important role concerning South Africa is inherent in its primary function: to educate. The most important thing Harvard can do, they say is teach its students all of the political and economic dynamics of the country, Says Benatar. "They really don't have much of a curriculum here on South Africa at all. If they're going to become involved with it, the University must provide more information about the country. Some one up there in the Harvard administration should know better...
...young people understand human actions after the fact. The classroom situation imposes certain restrictions (limited range of readings, limited time, one teacher's point of view) on the learning experience that are necessary to prevent chaos. In the end it is simply too safe and standardized an environment to teach a person about living...