Word: teachings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...much had the machines been sold for? "I don't know. I never go in for figures at all." Had Lawson made any profit on the deal? "Profit? Why no. What profit could I get out of it?" What courses were taught at the school? "Well, they teach Lawsonomy." And that deals with mechanics? "[It teaches] the knowledge of life and everything pertaining thereto, and that takes in mechanics." Finally Lawson got exasperated. "God, boy," he cried at 50-year-old Senator Moody, "if you want me to tell you all these things, you will wreck my mind...
...members of the Bennington Ensemble, a group of musicians who teach at Bennington College, presented a concert in Paine Hall Friday night. The music was uniformly excellent; the musicians were...
According to Rogers, progressive reject discipline, knowledge of specific facts, and "adult-made" morality and ethics. He also states that these educators "year after year teach less and less...
This form of learning does have some good qualities, however, Roger says: adaptation of teach methods to individual pupil differences, adaptation of subject matter to individual interest, and the inauguration of many new subjects. But the defects far out weigh the assets, he concludes...
...dean of St. John's, and Mark Van Doren, English professor at Columbia-have answered long & loud: make U.S. education truly liberal. That means, according to Adler, that 1) American college professors must commit academic hara-kiri by giving up their specialized fields; they should be able to teach anything in the liberal arts; 2) the scientific method should stick to science, and leave to philosophy the job of determining matters of right & wrong; 3) all Americans should get the same kind of liberal education till they take their A.B. (from two to four years earlier than at present...