Word: teachings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...same year Mormon Church President Brigham Young incorporated the University of Deseret (Mormon name for the Utah territory), to "teach all nations all useful arts and sciences" with "instruction . . . brought to the level of the laboring classes...
Sweeney & the Nightingales. After a year at Oxford, Eliot taught history, Latin, French, German, arithmetic, drawing and swimming in English schools, where he was known as "the American master." He also tried to teach the boys baseball while they tried to teach him Rugby and cricket. In 1915, he married a pretty ballet dancer, Vivienne Haigh, daughter of a British artist. He volunteered for duty with the U.S. Navy, but his ensign's commission did not come through until after the Armistice. He gave up teaching and went to work for Lloyds Bank in London. Friends think that...
Bargain Basements. To Lynd, it seems obvious that today's schoolchildren lack culture, and that it is due to the lack of culture in their teachers who are trained by the professional schools to treasure "enriched teaching" and "social orientation" more than the subjects they teach. Says Lynd: "The faculties who operate these intellectual bargain basements are the men who are quietly running the educational program in your school. It is more than a possibility that they are also running intelligent and literate young people right out of public education...
White argues that the college must give women "a vision of the family and the rewards it offers." It must teach them to be able to apply themselves when the family is grown, to extend their housekeeping beyond the home-to their towns, states, and to the nation. "We must agree with the feminists that 'women are people,' " says White, "yet hold to the supplementary truth that 'people are either women or men.' " One of the first tasks of the woman's college, says he, is to educate women to be proud that they...
...animals or meteorology-something with a great object lesson. People buy my products because they believe that I'm telling the truth. And people like to follow the example of a fellow they believe in, isn't that right? If I could do a movie that would teach kids tolerance and not to be smart alecks, then...