Word: teachings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Shyly genial Bachelor Inge, 44, winces at his colleagues who write plays primarily "to shock, to teach, to preach at. I hate a play that tells me what to think. I have to let the audience make up its own mind about my characters...
...rather wistful addendum, Aron says: "If tolerance is born of doubt, let us teach everyone to doubt all the models and Utopias." Logician Aron should know that doubt in one thing issues from faith in another. In any case, his is an unpractical enterprise in the present state of the French mind-like sending Coke to Cognac. He leaves France with nothing more nourishing than a paradox: "Let us pray for the advent of the sceptics...
Tutorial has always been considered a part of the curriculum which gained its impetus from the students' own interests. Before the faculty draws the conclusion that it is the students who are the cause of a weak tutorial, it would have to claim that the tutors and their teaching techniques are above improvement; something which they could not possibly claim at present. In some departments tutors merely follow a pre-ordained program which holds no more interest for them than for their students. Many departments assign tutors to teach a field about which they have little knowledge and less interest...
...Mayo Buckner, whose whole life had been spent in the institution, transition to the outside world would be tougher. In the mail came offers of two jobs and a score of places to live. Buck thought he would like to teach music. As soon as he and Superintendent Sasser agree on a place for him to go, he will be free-free, as Buck put it, "just to go out and sit in a park and listen to a good band...
Disneyland: Walt Disney's hour-long Mars and Beyond on ABC this week (Wed. 7:30 p.m.. E.S.T.) is doubly instructive. It should teach viewers of all ages plenty about the prospects of life and travel in the solar system, should serve TV producers well as a model of how to combine information with entertainment. A dozen Disney artists and animators under Producer-Director Ward Kimball enjoyed the advantage of a subject that is not only fascinating in itself but, since it soars off into the unpicturable, uniquely suited to their technique. They did not confuse the popular...