Word: teaching
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What his father could not show him and Thirsk could never teach him, Watson had to learn himself: how to win. "You learn how to win," he says, "by losing." Byron Nelson helped him survive the lessons. At 24, Watson led the U.S. Open (he prefers National Open, the old name) after three rounds at Winged Foot in Mamaroneck, N.Y., but on Sunday he bogeyed half of the holes and shot 79. His junior-high sweetheart Linda, his wife less than a year then, remembers that as the lowest point. "Wives weren't allowed in the clubhouse," she says...
...Council on Education, joined by the American Association of University Professors and three national student organizations, decided that the spectacles had grown both embarrassing and morally dangerous. The groups issued a statement that condemned heckling that silences speakers on college campuses. "Unless there is freedom to speak and to teach," the statement said, "even for those with whom we differ on fundamentals, and unless there is freedom for all to listen and learn, there can be no true college or university...
Alan E. Heimert, Cabot Professor of American Literature and the course's one remaining professor, said yesterday that he would not teach English 70 next year because, "I can't do it myself...
Delbanco said that he is planning to return and will teach the course again in 1984-85. As far as he knows, he added, the course will be back in its old form. But for now, "It was decided that English 70 should be given a rest next year," Delbanco said...
...jaillike schools make us unhappy, with the result that we become oppressors defending the system to cover up our unhappiness. Family-inspired social conventions teach us subconsciously to do absurd things like giving an inferior role to women. And the values of our competitive capitalist economy teach us to squish anyone who's weaker than...