Word: teaching
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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John Dearden, Krannert Professor of Business Administration who helps teach "Control," said yesterday that the faculty decided to replace a different question with the controversial one shortly before the exam. "If there had been more time to decide, the mistake might not have been made," he added...
Henderson's companion was the celebrated philosopher Alfred North Whitehead, who had recently left his post as professor of mathematics at the University of London to teach philosophy at Harvard. Whitehead had been a so-called "prize fellow" of Trinity College, Cambridge, an honor that gave him six years of study at the college free from financial burdens and teaching responsibilities...
...their way to teach writing, one group of young brigadistas meet an old brigadista--one who had fought alongside Augusto Cesar Sandino in the late '20s and early '30s, one who had fought actual Yanquis and not just the products of our arms industry. The youngsters are fascinated, the toothless old man only too happy to answer questions like, "What did you do with the Yanquis when you caught them?" ("We let them go without their ears," he grins). You can either be amazed by the power of tyrants to hold out against suffering people, or the power of long...
Specialists say teen-agers are unable "to understand the use of contraceptives or the consequences of non-use." This is ridiculous. Young people can understand. The real problem is the older generation's inability to teach our youth the hows and whys of contraception. Because we Americans find our children's sexuality embarrassing, we would rather accept the plight of unmarried teen-age mothers-and hold ourselves blameless...
...grade, get the votes, get to the top of the ladder-get the money. Should we be surprised if in the basketball games at school-or three or four years down the line in business-they follow those guidelines along the road of least resistance? We teach them how the game is played...