Word: teaching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...many topsy-turvy situations created by the European war involves Theodore Spencer, who will teach here this year as visiting lecturer in English. Up to last June he held the post of assistant professor of English...
...runs Brown's Lunch Room at Harlem Airport near Chicago, is partner in a flying service there. White people are sometimes surprised when they find her piloting them on pleasure hops ($1 for 10 minutes). She hopes to get an instructor's rating in the spring, teach flying at some Negro school certified...
...progressive education. One exception is brainy, brawny George Johnson, head of Catholic University's education department and educational director of the National Catholic Welfare Conference. Four years ago Dr. Johnson started a model elementary school attached to Catholic U.'s Sisters College, which trains nuns to teach in parochial schools. Aware that the strict curriculum of parochial schools (which enroll half of U. S. Catholic children) repelled many a Catholic parent, Dr. Johnson decided to take a leaf from progressives...
...first grade he taught his pupils "The Fatherhood of God" by discussing with them their own families and homes, getting them to build a house, reconstruct Bethlehem and Nazareth (complete with water and sewage systems), erect an altar with Quaker Oats boxes and paper. He also began to teach his first-graders to talk Latin...
...Council Against Intolerance in America (cochairmen: William Allen White, George Gordon Battle, W. Warren Barbour) sent to the nation's high schools a manual called An American Answer to Intolerance, instructing teachers how to immunize pupils against propaganda, teach them not to hate aliens, Jews or Germans (by teaching them to recognize their own prejudices, propagandists' tricks...