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...that Latin had muscle-bound his mind. He began by declining mensa (table), then wrote: "This nonsense I have been carrying around with me in the lumber room of my mind for 40 years. Like the geese of Strasbourg, I was force fed . . . and I still can't unlearn to talk to a table or a squad of tables, addressing them correctly in Latin, saying: 'O tables . . .' It's about time the tables, O tables, were turned against this piece of scholastic witchcraft...
Casehardened with Tradition. Teacher Genevieve Simpson (B.A.1922) was surprised to find that the algebra taught in the ordinary classroom is "not a part of modern algebra at all." Teacher Edgar Arnold (B.E. 1930) found that "this is all new to me. I have to unlearn old symbols and learn new ones. We are casehardened with tradition." "In modern math," adds Teacher Helene Lannon, who got her master's degree as late as 1948, "we have had to learn a new vocabulary. In the traditional mathematics we would say 'cancel out numbers.' Now you say 'divide...
Unlike the other cubist greats - Picasso, Braque, and the late Fernand Leger - who had to unlearn their earlier styles, young Juan Gris (pronounced Greece) had had only a rudimentary training in Madrid when he moved into the Rue Ravignan in 1906, to be near Picasso. In on cubism from its birth, Gris developed his own style naturally on cubist tenets...
Cheek to Cheek. The result was one of the best TV shows ever. Making his TV debut, Evans had to unlearn, in 30 hours of camera rehearsal, nearly all the stagecraft he had amassed in playing Hamlet 777 times on the legitimate stage. "In TV, it's all cheek to cheek," he says. "You can't stand away from another actor and project, like you do on the stage." NBC Director Albert McCleery's biggest job was "pulling down" Evans' projection to TV size. Both men were brilliantly successful, and Evans' famed clarity of diction...
...Unlearn & Relearn. In his wise and witty book (written in collaboration with Lowell S. Hawley, onetime newspaperman), Dr. Fisher describes his postgraduate days in Vienna as "a turbulent, hectic period-where the task each morning was to forget three-fourths of what had been learned the day before and had subsequently been disproved; and where the task each night was to remember half of what had been purposely forgotten in the morning because the theories which disproved these things had been themselves disproved...