Word: understand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...version of that, and over at the poolroom he tries to make the kid understand. "Look, kid," he says...
Clarity & Point. The secret of Sylvia Porter's success is that she writes of complex financial matters in terms that Everyman can understand, shuns the jargon of the financial specialist (which many a businessman-though loath to admit it-does not understand too well himself). She constantly redefines technical terms, turns complex concepts into housewifely images. "I write for a faceless image of myself," says she. "I figure if I'm interested in a subject, other people will...
None of this material is presented in the "science is good for us" style of the typical ninth grade general science course, quite possibly the worst offering of American high schools. Instead the Walden students really participate in their education, as they seek to understand how the earth was formed and how life developed...
...think how the ancients measured, with only rough instruments, the recurrence of the solstice, and how they had to repeat this many times to average and fix the duration of the year. By December the students are able to measure the solstice within a few days, and they understand their instruments well enough to know why they cannot figure it exactly...
...visitors attempted to speak to the students in Latin, but were unable to understand a word. They departed, believing Harvard undergraduates were illiterate...