Word: learn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...OEEC report gives Europe's businessmen hardheaded warning that they must become better salesmen in the dollar market, learn something about U.S. marketing and advertising. The report pays tribute to the idea of Western Europe's economic integration; it also shows that Western Europe has so far failed to take any major steps toward integration...
...should everyone be educated? To some, the old rules of teaching were enough-spooning out each day's lessons with little regard for what made children remember or forget them. Then such educator-philosophers as Pragmatist John Dewey began to broadcast new theories. To them, children could learn as much from experience, from solving real-life problems and from doing, as from drilling out of books. The curriculum, said Dewey, must be elastic, the school a miniature society; education was "living and not a preparation for future living...
...child proceeds through Denver's schools, he is not forced too hard to learn things he is not ready to learn; nor is he often kept back a grade. That, in the view of Superintendent Oberholtzer, would shake his self-confidence. Through high school, he has a special counselor who tries to adapt his curriculum as much as possible to fit his wants, abilities and needs. Explains Oberholtzer: "You can't give the same educational fare to all children, any more than you can give all Americans the same breakfast food every morning." Only by bending the curriculum...
...young mother who emigrated this year from the Netherlands wants a tutor to teach her English. Her two daughters have just started in primary school, and she wants to keep up with them as they learn the language...
Appalled, Dr. Paterson goes in Book III to the town library, to learn why men have lost the art of living together. He thrashes about in old books, is sickened by the library's "sweats of staleness," but finds no answer to his question. Williams' answer, if he finds one, will come in Book...