Word: teaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...argued that my criticism of this system is ill taken, that is as much as to say that it samples accurately what each student knows, from which it follows that Mr. Cramer can teach a student more in six hours than he can learn from the Department of History in six weeks. In that event I should recommend that Mr. Cramer be hired on the spot to teach History...
...Belgian Congo, to put in practice a phonetic language-learning system she had been taught by her missionary father. With it, she thought she could get the hang of any native tongue in three or four days. Her mission (sponsored by the United and Southern Presbyterian Boards): to teach the natives how to teach their own languages to the missionaries...
Quceny is already studying at Trinity College, Dublin. The Globe Fellowship will enable him to work for a Doctorate of Philosophy in Literature, after which he plans to teach on a secondary school level. He was graduated from Thayer Academy and took his pre-war college years at Colgate. His Navy service record includes participation in the Normandy invasion and command of a terpedo boat...
Last week 225 colleges and 300 schools were experimenting with the Army's records in language classes. Cornell was already convinced, now uses the Army method exclusively to teach seven languages. In groups of ten, Cornell students listen to the records until they are blue in the face; they put in 120 such "contact-hours" a semester. Cornell figures that new-method undergrads cover twice as much linguistic ground as by old methods...
...Honolulu, the U.S. Government will pay the bills of veterans who want to learn the hula. In California, the Animal Lovers Association will teach an ex-G.I. to train rodeo horses-by correspondence course. He can study "sleight of hand and prestidigitation" at the Chavez School of Magic, or master the art of makeup at the San Joaquin College of Cosmetology. Other schools will show the ex-G.I. (for tuitions curiously close to the legal maximum of $500) how to make candy, model for ads, decorate a cake...