Word: teaching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...week. It is not enough for all this worry. Besides it might affect my credit in my other lines of business." Indicted with Fay were 140 members of his Association, all unproductive city men who had learned too easily the principle which government is trying to teach their productive country cousins...
Applying electric currents to sensitive organs is a notorious method by which Bucharest gendarmes teach criminals to "sing" (confess). Last week the hardened police of Rumania's capital received new and congenial orders concerning motorists caught speeding...
...sport and sportsmanship so well. There was in that unselfish action of his the spirit that inspires men to things of which they knew not they were capable. And in the recognition of that spirit there is recognition also of that harmony of body, athletics, and the men who teach its laws...
...What is poetry for? To the Greeks and Romans education was practically synonymous with the study of the poets. For myself, I find it extremely difficult to attach no significance whatever to the belief of poets that it is their office to teach...
Poetry that teaches is not, he said, the same as didactic poetry. We ask the poet to teach only in his own fashion and mind his own lessons. We protest against didactic poetry; we resent its incompetence...