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...room are more interested in the sudden appearance of a reporter than in how to mark a ballot. That's until their teacher slams her hand on the desk. "Why are you not listening?" she chides. "You must pay attention to how the elections will work, so you can teach others, so you can make a good decision. Don't you understand? You are the future of Afghanistan...
...totally focused on making our retailers successful, letting them make money on us, letting salespeople make money on us. We focus a lot on sales training. Nobody wants to buy cables. Cables are kind of unromantic. You have to teach consumers why they should have them. Otherwise they can't get the best sound, they can't get the best picture...
...cultural terms, not in dollars and cents or politics. Americans are far less successful at doing that because we have never understood how our core beliefs are manifest in culture--and how culture should guide political and economic realities. That's what the city of New Orleans can now teach the nation again as we are all forced by circumstance to literally come closer to one another. I say teach us again, because New Orleans is a true American melting pot: the soul of America. A place freer than the rest of the country, where elegance met an indefinable wildness...
...organizing their own school day in classrooms with larger numbers of students; children contributing to the functioning of the school; children capable of tremendous focus and responsibility. As a parent of a former Montessori student, I can tell you that Whittle is describing a typical Montessori classroom. When we teach our children to think, to process and to be accountable for their own learning, they succeed. Montessori has been doing that for years...
...three-panel portrayal of the Civil War at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Hospital in Lebanon, N.H., where since 1990 he has painted 17 historical murals. (Among his other subjects: the Shaker sect, Native Americans and a New England fair.) He is also writing a book on the history of drawing, teaching female inmates at a Vermont state prison how to make a landscape mural and starting sketches for a portrait commission. Oh, and this fall he's off on a Fulbright fellowship to Colombia for two months, where he will teach painting in Spanish, a language he taught himself...