Word: teach
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After 53 years on the concert stage since his childhood debut as a violin virtuoso, Jascha Heifetz, 58, will soon expand his previous teaching activities, be a full professor of music at the University of California at Los Angeles. He will teach pupils who will get no grades, credits or medals for their showings. Why this new vocational tangent? "Violin playing is a perishable art," explained Heifetz. "It must be passed on as a personal skill; otherwise it is lost." Then Heifetz fondly recalled his old violin professor in czarist Russia: "He said that some day I would be good...
Four years ago John Friedlein and William Miller, who teach chemistry and physics at the high school (683 students), began agitating to remodel their dingy classrooms (built in 1926), which seemed closer to the Bronze Age than to the Nuclear Era. Robert W. Schaerer, a rare kind of school-district business manager, was no man to laugh at them. He got them permission to scour the Midwest for plans that grew a bigger price tag by the hour. "We always went big," says Schaerer, "and this was really big. But the school board didn't duck it." One bond...
During World War II, when Japan was allied with Nazi Germany, Kotsuji feared persecution for his Semitic sympathies and fled to Manchuria; he returned later to teach at Kantogakuin, a private university in Yokohama. As he recalls it, he was in a spiritual quandary. ul had stopped practicing Christianity because I found the Trinity doctrine unreasonable. I abhorred Buddhism because it is a skeptical religion, without a central idea or purpose. I could not return to Shintoism's immaturity, its inadequate guide for living." Jewish friends introduced Kotsuji to leaders of the newly founded, Jerusalem-based World Union...
Your article points up the biggest weakness in teachers colleges today-the superfluous number of "methods" courses. We future teachers are mired in a curriculum of "how to teach" courses, while neglecting the most important aspect of teacher education, a well-rounded liberal arts background...
...have married such an old woman." Khrushchev's first wife died "in the famine" in the early '20s, leaving him with two small children. Nina and Nikita met in the Ukraine. She was a political-science teacher, he a student of mining engineering, "but I did not teach him anything and he did not teach me." He is a "very attentive" husband...