Word: teachings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Moholy-Nagy, Albers came to the U.S. when Hitler closed the Bauhaus, taught at Black Mountain College and later headed Yale's Department of Design. At 70, Albers has the granitic and yet sensitive face of a northern Dante; though recently retired, he still finds opportunities to teach. "To distribute spiritual possessions," he may say to one shy talent, "is to multiply them." To another, more flamboyant, he may murmur in passing, "Calm down. What happens happens mostly without...
...since questions are drawn by lot from lists circulated weeks beforehand, it is possible for a hard-working parrot to have huge scholastic success. For panicked patriots who insist that the-U.S. look abroad for an educational model-something he does not suggest-Hechinger reports that Norwegian academies teach more math and physics than Soviet schools, and that "any French high school graduate would find the Russian [final] exam a breeze...
...while responding to Jones' criticism of too many lower level teachers. Hynek fully agreed that the emphasis upon secondary preparation ought to be increased. However, he maintained that "not even as great a university as Harvard should forget that one of the prime obligations of a university is to teach...
...many ways I've found teaching the best way to write. You're freed from so many pressures. I've always wanted to teach a freshman course in composition. You're given a clean slate and the chance to get something from everyone. I suppose this is part of the illusion we all live in when we're outside something, but I'd still like...
Legislator Bruffett, who does his school-teaching in Bradleyville (pop. 69), would allow universities -but not high schools -to teach evolution as a theory, if it were "made clear that the only true account of Creation is the Biblical account." Texts used in Missouri high schools and colleges explain that life evolved from one-celled organisms, and they will most likely continue to do so. Missouri's back-country-dominated house of representatives may pass Bruffett's bill, but it stands virtually no chance of survival in the more sophisticated senate. Said a state school official wearily...