Word: teachings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...crowded main street in downtown Sao Paulo, a lean, intense young man brandishing a length of rubber hose charged a paunchy, white-haired, grandfatherly type. "Nasty old man!" shouted the attacker. "I'll teach you a lesson!" The improvised truncheon whistled past the victim's head, thudded against his shoulder. After that the oldster did the teaching. He whipped off his glasses, grabbed the upswung truncheon with both hands, wrenched it away, then gave the young man several ferocious whacks with it before the cops put an end to the skirmish, a sequel to a talk...
Each year, according to the Sarnoff plan, U.S. corporations would release at full pay a number of men and women to teach in local schools. The reserve would also mobilize retired employees as well as volunteers for night classes. It should get the same recognition as the various military reserves, should be set up on a national basis, perhaps by act of Congress. "Because of their practical experience," said Sarnoff, "teachers in the Educational Reserve Corps would bring the breath of living reality into the classroom. They would help to restore the sense of adventure to technical careers and inspire...
Forward, Technology. About the only phase of education that in any way lives up to Mao's original promises is technology. The liberal arts colleges have disappeared, and China's 201 universities have been turned into 182 science and engineering schools. Some of these teach only one subject. Peking's Fu Jen University, once run by Roman Catholics, teaches only biology. One medical school specializes only in diseases of North
...Woman Lobby. Since she first took over her post, state support for education, once only 11% has zoomed to 50%. She has lobbied successfully for the redistricting of school districts, dual certification of teachers (so they can teach in either elementary or secondary schools), has set up as tough a teacher-training program as any in the country...
From these statistics, and from interviews with faculty members and local clergymen, the report attempts to determine the proper place of religious instruction in a liberal arts college. "A liberal education," it states "is the education of free men and must teach men how to be free. The free man must be able to discern and evaluate independently, and this is impossible without some basic understanding of ultimate worth. Unless he has conceptions of worth which he has chosen, his judgements will be based on standards imposed from without and he is not free...