Word: teaching
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Made edgy by the conversation, Mrs. Khalil emphasizes that the aim of her society is to teach the children to love the beautiful things in the old country, and not to frighten them. "You don't want to start striking out right and left." She waves right and left with her arms; her English rolls in a heavy swell. "You want to make distinctions. A good Jew from a bad Jew. A good Arab from a bad. Also you want to show that life is not all hardship. There is joy here...
...mean in the future?" They laugh. Mona blushes. Boutros jumps in: "When I was very young, my parents told me about their leaving Palestine. I will teach my children to be strong and to depend on themselves, as I depend on myself. I will teach them to love all those who love the Palestinians...
Taps is trying desperately to tell us something about traditional martial-macho values and about the dangerous lessons we teach kids. But the Big Themes are squashed right from the start under the weight of a ponderous and highly improbable story line. First Bache (George C. Scott) pulls a pistol during a townie-cadet brawl, eventually killing a local and suffering a fatal heart attack himself. Then, instead of packing up and heading for the shore, the youthful commandos decide to honor their fallen leader and the school he loved by declaring war on the outside world. Needless...
...past two decades. Rival states that claim to represent Marxism-Leninism have not only denounced each other for various revisionist and schismatic sins, they have also gone to war. China and the U.S.S.R. fought a border conflict in 1969. Ten years later, China invaded Communist Viet Nam to "teach it a lesson" for Hanoi's attempt to conquer Communist Cambodia. China is currently assisting the Muslim "holy warriors" who are trying to topple the Communist government of Afghanistan...
...absence of traditional chapters. Others find the book "mechanistic" and too repetitive, and think it might be boring to use in class. Bruce Vogeli, professor of mathematics at Columbia University's Teachers College, sees Saxon's innovations as insignificant and ineffectual: "One can't teach algebra only as a skill. Drill and practice are only part of the problem." He likens drilling to the lowest common denominator of algebra. Mathematical literacy, assert Saxon's critics, is not simply the ability to calculate, but the ability to reason quantitatively...