Word: teaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...learning Spanish in El Paso schools: "They don't teach us very much. We're really a bunch of parrots. ... I have a hunch the way they're doing it is not very good. . . . Speaking of school, it may surprise you to know that it comes from a Greek word meaning, of all things, leisure...
Your story, "No Spik Swahili" (TIME, May 4), bears the statement, "to the best of the Government's knowledge, the U.S. has no one at all who can teach such essential linguistic tools of war as Burmese, Swahili, Malagasy." This the reporter should have qualified still further. For at least the State Department must know of the passage to and from "Swahililand" (East Africa) of scores of missionaries who have mastered the tongue of this section, a language spoken also by the seafaring people of the ports of Egypt and the Near East...
...current ambition: to get to be a good enough boilermaker to teach the knack of rolling tubes to next year's crop of dislocated bond salesmen...
...Harbor, Wisconsin has since doubled its R.O.T.C., organized the first university ski troop, even staged a night "commando" raid, with 100 men in blackface wading ashore from Lake Mendota to capture a cottage on the lower campus. The daily Cardinal has started a campaign to endow a chair to teach the causes & cures of war. Late this month the university will break a strict rule to give an honorary degree in absentia to General MacArthur, utilizing short wave...
...main hallway on the ground floor is an exhibit of Eskimo culture, which illustrates the newly - conceived, "Museum" technique of exhibiting only a few objects in a case at one time. The theory behind this is that one well placed bow and arrow or a single sled will teach more to the average observer than a case chock full of implements from which he will probably turn away in complete boredom. On the fifth floor, there is a collection of Arctic mummies donated the Museum by no less and earthy organization than the American Meatpackers' Institute. The story behind this...