Word: teachings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Permit me to say sadly, "How true, how true." The fact remains that despite all of this effort to try to make children happy in school, it leaves them uneducated for the most part . . . School should teach people how to study . . . how to read, how to concentrate on really tough subjects, to persevere in them and to conquer them...
...across Europe last week. This time, the voice belonged to Czelaw Kaczmarek, for eleven years bishop of Kielce, who went on trial in Warsaw with three other priests and a nun for "espionage, anti-state propaganda and diversionary activities." The Communists had kept him two years in prison to teach him his lines. Yes, said the dead, obedient voice, he had worked secretly with the Nazis during the occupation to keep the people "meek and cooperative." He had helped American officials to "prepare a new war." Ex-U.S. Ambassador Arthur Bliss Lane had paid him off for his espionage...
Modern Times. In Springfield, Ill., five-year-old Marsha Howard reported to her family that kindergarten offered only "tricycles and bicycles and a little red wagon for little kids," refused to go back because "they don't teach typing or arithmetic...
...March had not yet attained the age of immorality when his father abandoned Augie's simple-minded mother and her three sons, one an idiot, in a Chicago slum. The impoverished Jewish family lived on charity and the wits of Grandma Lausch, an imperious boarder who tried to teach Augie principles of good behavior. But Augie tailed along with neighborhood hoodlums, stole pennies from newsstands, quarters from a shop where he briefly worked, ladies' handbags in a planned robbery. While older brother Simon, out to get rich, was learning to knot a bow tie and be charming...
Filipino Protestants gathered in downtown Manila's gothic United Church last week to celebrate a milestone event: the commissioning of missionaries to foreign lands. The Rev. Jorge R. Quismundo, 29, was off with his wife to teach in Celebes, the Rev. Jose D. Estoye, 29, and his wife were bound for Thailand. They were the first missionaries to be sent abroad by the new United Church of the Philippines...