Word: teachings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Quitting Rice Institute to turn pro in 1941, Jack was soon converted into a U.S. Marine judo instructor, spent four years at U.S. camps dreaming of green fairways. In 1948, back to golf, he became head pro at the Metropolis Country Club in White Plains, N.Y. Jack Burke can teach the game as well as he plays it; his trademarks are long giant-arc hitting, delicately accurate iron shots. A confirmed bachelor, he sees "no chance of my getting married. I've got to stay out of that trap until I get some golfing done...
...next six weeks, White carried him tirelessly about house, barn and fields. He stood "smiling into space" while Gos tore at his ungloved hand and ripped his cheek. After days of inching progress, Gos accepted a 24-yd. creance (length of twine). White's next job was to teach Gos to fly to his shoulder. At first White cringed as Gos pounced, claws first. There was always the chance that the hawk would strike at his face. Five yards, two yards-soon White could stare at the hawk until he was only a few inches away. The next step...
First, the law sets standards for hiring and firing teachers that are irrelevant to a person's fitness to teach. Instead of examining a teacher's ability to teach, his knowledge of the subject, delivery, impartiality, and other qualifications a teacher must have, the Board of Regents will investigate the company he keeps. In some cases where teaching involves interpretation of current affairs, economics, history and so forth, the teacher's beliefs may be important: no one committed to any extreme dogma is competent to teach such subjects. But this is not the rationale for the Feinberg Law. The Board...
...teach everyone that before his own rights he has, as a human being, equal moral duties toward the community to which he belongs is a much better way to get rid of all narrow prejudices and shameful discriminations. This is, I believe, what American Schools and Universities are supposedly doing today...
...germ warfare. I plan to remove all the knives from the Union tomorrow because they can be used for bad. It is lucky that Dr. Struik, to whom Mr. Hanlon refers, has been conclusively accused of Communism because if he were not stopped, he would go right on teaching mathematics. His students might not realize that he was sneaking in some bad Communist mathematics. Mr. Hanlon is also right that freedom really means "freedom as we ought" not "as we wish." A Communist should not be free to teach because be will teach as he wishes instead...