Word: teachings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...told me just how to proceed,'' says Mellon. "He advised me what subjects to take in medical school. He said not to study tropical medicine, that if I came there he could teach me more tropical medicine in a week than I could learn in school in three months." The Mellons moved to New Orleans. Larry completed his premed work in two summers and a regular term at Tulane University, and ground his way through Tulane's Medical School in four years. "I didn't know whether I was going to be able to make...
Constructive Critic. In Brameld's eyes, "the people" do not run the nation−they only think they do. The real rulers make up a Veblenesque minority that controls communications as well as the sources of wealth and power. Education, therefore, must pierce this sham; it must teach the majority how to find out what it really wants and then put those wants into effect. Education is "the learning of cooperative methods for attaining objectives upon which the widest possible majority of the people, young and old, can agree...
U.C.L.A. decided to teach everything at once, or nearly so. As a result, its medical freshmen spend their first year learning only about normal man-his psychological and biological aspects in terms of structure, function, growth, behavior, the effects of environment. At every step anatomy, physiology and biochemistry are correlated. The next 18 months deal with disease. The last terms include full-time bedside and clinic experience...
...Angoff, do you mean to tell me that they didn't teach you the fine points of wines and whiskeys at Harvard?' " 'No, I'm afraid they didn't,' I would say, prepared for what was to come, for we went through this ritual numberless times...
...What are you going to do?" asks the Rev. John Eraser, 41, of Glasgow, who recently took over the Lubwa mission. "We must get out more into the field and teach the Bible. For ten years we've been too busy keeping the mission going to get out and do field work. Lenshina just stepped into a natural opportunity, I suppose...