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...foot and hold out their arms to comprehend the ideas of leftness and rightness. They manipulate letters that have been fashioned from pipe cleaners, feel the shapes with their eyes closed as the teacher pronounces the letter's sound. The aim, says Mrs. McGlannan, is to blend sight, sound and touch in order to straighten out jumbled perceptions by "involving all the sensory pathways...
...color harmonies of Seurat's "pointillism" (also called "divisionism," this theory of painting suggested that brighter secondary colors, such as green, could be obtain making a series of small patches of the primary colors--in the case of green they are blue and yellow--and allowing these colors to blend in the viewer's eye at a certain distance from the painting rather than mixing the pigments themselves...
...military posture, but are "upset over the possible fall of the South Vietnamese government that we have supported, and feel that if the government changes and we are asked to withdraw, our position there will be untenable." In neighboring Arizona, reported Democrat Samuel Goddard, public opinion reflects a similar blend of support and concern...
...sheer shortage of teachers and a system of tenure that ensures every professor his job for a lifetime prevent administrators from firing stale and incompetent teachers. Sociology Professor Robert Nisbet of the University of California's Riverside campus calls tenure "a blend of mystique and the sacred, as nearly impregnable a form of differential privilege as the mind of man has ever devised." The teaching profession, says the Danforth Foundation's Merrimon Cuninggim, "is the only profession that has no definition for malpractice." Even mental deterioration is no cause for dismissal, and, says Nisbet, "a single man can cause intellectual...
While teaching is a highly personal blend of style, scholarship and attitudes, the qualities of the great teachers of the past are not at all mysterious. Socrates, bearded and bald, gave his name to today's best seminar style simply by plucking insights out of youthful minds with incisive questions. Aristotle drew upon the illustrative experiences of his reckless youth to inspire other youths to be good; his Lyceum linked research and teaching by analyzing biological specimens. In a medieval age of faith, the unconventional Peter Abelard employed shafts of wit and the theory that "constant questioning is the first...