Word: teachings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...civilized barbarian" does not justify the term "period piece" in these days, when the only faith we have is in materialism -only we have gone Babbitt one better and put our hopes in militaristic materialism. Possibly a re-examination of the Babbitts which Sinclair Lewis portrayed so well will teach us to put our faith in something better during...
...Partly, says Ayer, because high schools now carry along a lot of low I.Q.s who used to drop out at grade-school level. But more important: elementary schools spend less time on spelling, often do not teach it as a separate subject at all. Says Ayer: "Children are taught to read by phrases and whole sentences, and they aren't taught that each word represents an idea. Perhaps it's good for reading, but it's bad for spelling...
University Professor I. A. Richards inaugurated G.E. A this fall, but there is some question over how long he will be willing to teach the one-term course which is offered twice a year...
...Teach My Father." Revolutions usually take place while things are getting better, but not getting better fast enough. Iranians have seen something of Western ways and techniques. They are learning rapidly that their misery is unnecessary, their lot unjust. This means that Iran is not only poverty-stricken and disease-ridden; it is also in a ferment of insecurity that runs from the peasant in his windowless hovel to the young Shah in his palace. Everybody knows that the future will be very different, but nobody has any confidence that the immediate future will be better for him. Unless economic...
...voluntary contributions. The N.E.F. put up $20,000 to help Mamazan. Impressed by what the $20,000 bought, Iran's government put a whopping $400,000 into the N.E.F.'s work A ten-year-old who had gone to Noe's school said proudly: "I can teach my father how to transplant lettuce and how to keep the cabbage from freezing...