Word: teachings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...read in What Have I Done? about an invasion of Earth by a strange emotionless race from outer space. These visitors would much prefer to take over in the manner of Communists, craftily and without violence. They get the lowly manager of an unemployment agency to teach them how to make like Earthlings. This fellow teaches them compassion, and thus foils the plot. But alas, these poor visitors were never taught how deceitful we Earthlings really are, and they must "go down beneath the ravening fury of rending and destroying man always displays when he meets his ideal face...
...absence of one philosophy necessarily means the presence of another escapes us. In fact, it would be a great surprise to find that secondary education, which after all deals with elementary subjects, deals with so large and advanced a topic as philosophy of life at all. One can teach English, Mathematics, Languages, History and so on without encouraging either materialism or religion, and this is the way these subjects art usually taught. Philosophy is left where is should be, with the individual, his home, and his voluntary associations...
...Civil War is a waste of time and talent," Keppel commented, "and we can't afford the fight any more. We are doing our best in trying to teach these people in the best...
...equal momentum the innuendoes slung at them by the professors of the liberal arts colleges. The root of the controversy, say the Faculties of the Arts and Sciences, is that the schools of education pay too much attention to the mechanics of education, rather than to what subjects to teach...
Under a Carnegie Corporation visiting fellowship program, three scholars from other universities will teach in the College's General Education program next year, Provost Buck announced yesterday...