Word: teachings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...well qualified to teach; he learned his own technique from one of the best: the great French pedagogue Isidor Philipp. He also picked up a few hints from his dad. Stravinsky once heard Soulima as a child playing Schumann's Etudes Symphoniques and stopped him: "Tell your teacher he will teach you my music and I will teach you Chopin and Schumann myself...
Professor Henry Grattan Doyle of George Washington University thought it was time to call a halt. The latest gimmick among U.S. educators was something called "life-adjustment education" -a school of thought which seemed to believe that the teacher's job was not so much to teach history or algebra, as to prepare students to live happily ever after. "It will pass," said Professor Doyle to the Modern Language Association last week; but meanwhile, "it is continuing the same course of wild claims, blanket condemnation of 'traditional' subjects, anti-intellectualism, and contempt for 'book learning...
...young missionary, newly arrived in India, had hoped to bring the Gospel to some remote village. Instead, the Northern Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions sent him to Allahabad Christian College, 70 miles from Benares, and there he got his orders. "Higginbottom," said the principal, "you will have to teach economics." Higginbottom knew little of economics, but he did as he was told. He also did as he was told when the principal said: "The new missionary always has charge of the leper colony. Higginbottom, that is your job now." Thus, at the turn of the century, Sam Higginbottom began...
...while in the U.S. on furlough, Sam Higginbottom decided that he could best help India after making a serious study of agriculture. Three years later, armed with a degree in agriculture from Ohio State University, he returned to teach the Indians how to farm...
Bach. Says Mary Lou: "You just can't teach jazz to anyone who has had ten to 15 years of classical study. There is an age limit to jazz, you know; you're not supposed to start playing it after 30." Mary Lou should know: she started at three...