Word: teaching
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...simply trying to teach Salvadorans how to be more effective as soldiers," says the senior officer among the trainers, "how to survive as individual fighters, how to avoid more injuries and incidents with the civilians." Adds another officer: "They're serious about our presence. They accept us for what we can help them do." The lessons do not always take, however. The distinction between a detainee and a prisoner, for example, is difficult to convey. (A prisoner is someone caught in a hostile act, and should be interrogated on the spot.) Until recently, in fact, the Salvadoran army never...
...what is preached at business schools today is absolute rot," says Michael Thomas, a New York financial consultant and former partner in the investment banking firm of Lehman Bros. "It is paper management. It is not the management of hard resources and people. Business schools teach that business is nothing but the numbers-and the numbers only for the next quarter...
...deal go bad. Either you didn't protect yourself adequately, or you didn't think things through. You think very highly of yourself, and you don't want to spend time worrying about boring details. But that is the way the world is. It does teach...
...been said taht the best thing any school can teach anyone is how to learn and how to think. The principle applies very well to schools of business administration...
...clock." But the real problem, she says, is attitude. "The Music Department could really be an advocate of performance, but instead professors say to me. 'Oh, you probably want to do something more intellectual with your life than perform. 'It's one thing if they don't want to teach it, but they look down on it as well," she says, noting that none of her professors has ever attended any of her numerous recitals or chamber-music concerts...