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- 221: Welfare Reformation
- ... and guidance that they need during their growth stages. To help teachers respond to children's needs, classroom sizes should be limited to approximately twenty students. This limitation will help to foster a more intimate teaching environment. Schools should also rely more heavily on teaching civic responsibility and such key values as respect and honesty. It is these traits which will help them make the right choices concerning their development and vocation. Parents and communities should become more interested and ...
- 222: How I Learned To Ski
- ... teach his first son just how to ski. Through practice and time I have made my father a happy teacher. I owe all my skiing knowledge to my father who has spent hour upon hour teaching me the so called "tricks of the trade". However, I have broken more than one bone learning what proves to be a very intense and serious sport and you should not take the excitment for ... to one of the best resorts in the nation, which is properly named Steamboat. We do most of our skiing there know a days, so you can see if it wasn't for my father teaching me how to ski I would probably not be so fascinated by this incredible and breath -taking sport.
- 223: Winter In The Blood An Analysi
- ... to get them back. On the other hand, Yellow Calf allows the narrator a chance to realize that possessions are just that possessions. Although the protagonist is not fully aware of what Yellow Calf is teaching him, he will come to realize the lesson later in the novel. Yellow Calf continues to enlighten the narrator about his culture and the significance of the land by telling him that he talks to ... teachings of Yellow Calf, yet is utilizing thought in his answers. Yellow Calf continues to explain that we can t change anything . . .even the deer . . . they only see the signs (69). Thus, Yellow Calf is teaching the narrator that change is inevitable, but that one must be aware of it s presence. Although, the narrator does not full understand Yellow Calf s wisdom he respects the old man and his oneness ...
- 224: Conversation With A Doctor
- ... that it's small, of course. A condominium. Well, I teach literature at McGill. And I went on an academic exchange to Germany. Hamburg. It's an ugly city, but we enjoyed it anyway. Yes, teaching. I got Arnaud to travel around Germany a bit, and we came back through France. No, I wish I had learnt it, but since I taught my students in French it didn't matter too ... much demand for private consultants on French Literature. I don't think I could change careers if I wanted to. I'd give up so much -- my seniority, all my benefits, my pension -- and anyhow teaching literature is what I do. No, Arnaud would never consider anything else. I have to practically force him to take over research projects. He doesn't understand achievement, he doesn't care if he sits ...
- 225: Robert Frost - Use Of Everyday Items In His Poetry
- ... with Elinor White, to whom he became engaged." (Bloom p. 12) Frost then went onto Dartmouth College, he ended up dropping out of school after one semester. "He instead pursued a variety of jobs, including teaching at his mothers private school and working in a textile mill. In 1894 he published a few poems in The Independent and began corresponding with its literary editor." (Bloom p.12) In December 1895 he ... year later." (Bloom p. 13) As Frost was continuing to write poetry, he began to pursue what would be a life long career as a part-time college teacher. He and his family moved between teaching posts in New Hampshire, Vermont, and many other places. "In the course of his lifetime, Frost was recognized with more than 17 honorary degrees from prestigious colleges and universities in the United States and England ...
- 226: Robert Frost
- ... but left without a degree. Over the next ten years he wrote (but rarely published) poems, operated a farm in Derry, New Hampshire (purchased for him by his paternal grandfather), and supplemented his income by teaching at Derry's Pinkerton Academy. In 1912, at the age of 38, he sold the farm and used the proceeds to take his family to England, where he could devote himself entirely to writing. His ... Will enabled Frost to buy a farm in Franconia, N.H.; to place new poems in literary periodicals and publish a third book, Mountain Interval (1916); and to embark on a long career of writing, teaching, and lecturing. In 1924 he received a Pulitzer Prize in poetry for New Hampshire (1923). He was lauded again for Collected Poems (1930), A Further Range (1936), and A Witness Tree (1942). Over the years ...
- 227: Fritz Haber
- ... a short time, Haber left his father's business and took up research in organic chemistry at the University of Jena. The university's strictly orthodox methods soon led him to leave for a junior teaching position at the Technische Hochschule of Karlsruhe. At the age of 25, Haber immediately threw himself, with tremendous energy, into teaching and research in physical chemistry, a subject in which he was essentially self-taught. Quickly he gained respect and recognition for his research in electrochemistry and thermodynamics. He also authored several books arising from his ...
- 228: Only Yesterday
- ... evolution of the human race. They contended that the Bible was nothing more than fictitious literature and that humans evolved over millions of years from lower life forms. Many states past laws that forbade the teaching of evolution in public schools. This brought about the Scopes trial. John Thomas Scopes was a 24-year-old biology teacher from Dayton, Tennessee. He was dared into teaching evolution just to see what would happen. He did and the country erupted with an overwhelming response. People across the nation began taking sides on the issue. A trial progressed with Clarence Darrow defending Scopes ...
- 229: Explaining The Twenties
- ... present threat to the truth. With evolution as the enemy, they set out to eradicate it from their society, beginning from the education system. By 1925, states across the South had passed laws prohibiting the teaching of evolution in classrooms. The controversy between the evolutionists and the creationists reached its peak during the trial of John T. Scopes, a high school teacher in the Dayton public school system of Tennessee. John T. Scopes was accused of violating a state law prohibiting the teaching of evolution. The Scopes Trial was broadcast around the country, with the old Populist, William Jennings Bryan, acting as the prosecutor. Bryan had taken up the case because he saw Darwinian science as an attack ...
- 230: Multicultural Education
- ... Aquinas, Marx, and Freud. By 1987, a group called the Rainbow Coalition argued the fact that the books were all written by DWEM's or Dead White European Males. They felt that this type of teaching denied students the knowledge of contributions by people of color, women, and other oppressed groups. In 1987, the faculty voted 39 to 4 to change the curriculum and do away with the fifteen book requirement ... learning. Teachers certainly will pick up on educational aspects from other countries. If, for instance, a teacher has a minority student from a different country every year, he or she can develop a well rounded teaching style that would in turn, benefit all students. Teachers can also keep on top of things by regularly attending workshops and getting parents involved so they can reinforce what is being taught in the classroom ...
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