Word: teachings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Worms notwithstanding, Teacher Duff plans to end her year-long Stateside furlough this month, fly back to continue educating the Amueshas. Her task: to teach the Indians to read, to transcribe literature-including the Bible-into Amuesha. using a phonetic alphabet she helped devise...
...sciences, but they are just as great in painting, music, writing and scholarship." In routine matters, they did still better. Veterans and their wives settled down and became the generation to cut the wartime divorce rate in half, raise the birth rate 26.2% in a decade, demand that schools teach their Johnnies how to read. Because unexpected millions of vets got to college, a college education became a near-necessity for their youngsters...
...just letting their questions go rather than take the trouble"; day-to-day happenings cannot be related to course material; teachers filming new courses have to be careful not to drag in anything topical. Said one teacher plaintively: "They say it takes the pick-and-shovel repetition out of teaching. But some teachers like to teach...
Compulsory Spinach. Says Lyttleton of the Latin-or-Greek requirement, which he hopes to upset at the next meeting of the Cambridge Senate: "It's ridiculous. It reminds me of the Victorian dictum, 'It doesn't matter what you teach a boy, as long as he doesn't like it.' " As a boy, Lyttleton did not like Latin, flunked his Cambridge entrance exam the first time, barely squeaked into the university on his second...
...speaking of the mass all right. The mass of brainless idiots who can't draw their way out of a canal and think they can teach...