Word: teach
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This deal probably means a lot more to the world than money and ego. The largest industrial merger in history is a test of whether globalization can really bring together the leading capitalists of Europe and the U.S. Can fastidious Germans join with freewheeling Americans and teach the Japanese a lesson or two? Although only the world's fourth largest carmaker, DaimlerChrysler's $95 billion market capitalization looms over General Motors, and the company is sitting on $22 billion in cash. Its 440,000 employees make everything from cars and trucks to Airbuses, trains and ocean-liner engines...
...maiming or running over anything that moves represent a significant fraction of a total revenue stream that could top $7 billion this year--bigger even than the annual take from movie box-office receipts--and nobody is going to tighten that spigot without a fight. "Video games don't teach people to hate," said Douglas Lowenstein, president of the Interactive Digital Software Association, last week. "The entertainment-software industry has no reason to run and hide...
...right? How do you teach your child to be good at sports and be a good sport too? My favorite authority on this subject is John McCarthy, 30, a former minor-league pitcher with the Baltimore Orioles organization who in 1992 returned to Washington, his hometown. He has since taught baseball to thousands of local children through his Home Run Baseball camp and to a high-spirited team of disadvantaged kids to which he donates his time at an inner-city elementary school...
...would add that we parents can help our kids and their coaches by shouting from the sidelines only to applaud and encourage them--instead of, say, demanding a shift in the outfield. We should thank the umpires after games and teach our kids that the bad calls and good calls even out--in sports as in life. Similarly, we should help them see that, in sports as in life, they will sometimes play well and lose, or play poorly and win. So the only sensible goals are to have fun and improve their skills...
Societal respect, although important, only goes so far. Money goes further. I have often told other Harvard students about my volunteer teaching endeavors or my desire to become a public school teacher, and received the response of: "Gee, I'd love to teach but I have to pay off my student loans," or, perhaps more bluntly: "Yeah, I'd like to teach, but I actually want to make some money." When it costs over $32,000 per year to go to Harvard, the average starting salary of a teacher in Massachusetts with a bachelor's degree...