Word: learning
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...view the question in its general aspect, however, we cannot help but think that the American college student needs a good deal more supervision than do his fellow students in England and on the continent. While in American students may go to college primarily to learn something--most of them do not know exactly what--in the European schools students are there only to learn. Learning and culture are not their primary objects for higher education, they are their only objects. The American college then is a three-sided institution where study, activities and social life all have their place...
...They learn that His Majesty is receiving telegrams from many of the Captains General pledging support to "any Prime Minister in whom the King has confidence." The Dictator's game is therefore up. He and his all-night colleagues adopt a resolution that he has committed an "error" (i. e. the telegram) and should present the Cabinet's resignation to the King...
...Psychiatric Clinic, first as an interne, later as assistant physician. Working among cretins and morons, she undertook to sift out and salvage feeble-minded and backward children. Through patient experimentation she discovered that if the child were given something to twist and touch with its hands, its brain might learn to function responsively. At least it was less restive. Four years later (1898), she made known her preliminary findings to colleagues at the Pedagogical Congress in Turin. Her psychiatric studies and feminist activities brought her national recognition. The same year, aged 28, she was sent to Germany as Italy...
Auto-Education is the name of the method by which the pupil's attention is awakened. The child is given access to a room full of "didactic material''-scores of ingenious, practical devices which he handles and learns to use. There are pieces of cloth on racks for three-year-olds to button and unbutton, bow-knots to be tied and untied, shoe-buttoners to be handled. Infants, when let alone, learn to identify similar buttons and knots on their own clothing, are thus taught to dress themselves...
...were delighted to learn in this morning's CRIMSON that 57 percent of the Radcliffe graduates ever got married. The Racketeers, Nine Linden Street...