Word: teachings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Though public high school enrollments have gone up 21.6% since 1947, U.S. colleges turned out only 4% more graduates trained to teach mathematics and only 15.1% more trained to teach science. And of those so trained, only six out of ten went directly into teaching...
...physics courses, and blames it on "permitting woolly-brained educationists to impose their peculiarly distorted concept of the meaning of education on our school system." The answer may simply be poor instruction, or perhaps Professor "Pancho" Bobie's [Jan. 13] school of misguided thought that almost anyone can teach if he has sense, character and a basic knowledge of history, science, languages and literature...
...well use some competent "woolly-brained" physicists to analyze the methods used by his physics department. Looking at the pathetic pupil achievement in these courses at the University of Buffalo causes me to ask: When will university physics and math departments take a good long look at how to teach science...
When the time came for cotton planting last spring, Arizona Farmer Jack A. Harris saw a fine chance to teach the Government a lesson-and make himself a quick profit (TIME, July 22). A foe of all price supports, he put his 1,600-acre Pima County farm into the soil bank in return for a $209,701 Government check. Then he sidestepped the bank's purpose by sowing 4,500 acres of cotton in another part of the state. Even after paying an 18½? penalty a pound for growing cotton without an allotment (which amounted...
...used-and-new Dodge. Pontiac and Plymouth car lots in Compton. Pasadena, Long Beach and Hollywood, Caruso refined cheating, double-dealing and intimidation into such a formalized art that he actually conducted regular classroom sessions to teach his salesmen (nine of whom got lighter sentences) how to go about it. Salesmen were instructed to get customers to sign blank contracts, later cut the trade-in allowance and raise the new car price they wrote in on the contract. They were taught to spout figures at a torrential rate to confuse the buyer, and to never put a deal in writing...