Through their school careers they had been taught to keep silent and learn by rote.
Tom Coss, a 32-year-old butcher based in Seattle, says he is grateful for the opportunity to be silent and learn about some gender issues women face (like catcalling, a reality that he says he was "oblivious" to until recently).
Webster began playing the violin in childhood and then played piano accompaniments to silent films; after learning to play alto saxophone, he joined the family band led by Lester Young's father.
They want us to provide roomy group space to support new ways of learning, silent areas for when they are revising, relaxation areas and cafes to allow them to spend long hours in the building.
Learning about silent letters is absolutely baffling to a lot of children, for example, but "as relics of earlier pronunciations, they are interesting ways of signalling how the language has changed over time".
Most filmmakers of the 1930's to 1950's started their careers in silent movies or learned directly from those who did, and their fundamental visual approach has been disappearing as more directors and writers come from television.
But a few weeks ago, people at Manhattanville College's women's basketball games began to recognize that the senior guard Toni Smith would quietly turn her back to the American flag during the pregame playing of "The Star-Spangled Banner," a silent protest, they learned, of America's potential involvement in an Iraqi war.
So, he simply turns pale and silent when he learns of Lancelot's affair with Guinevere in the Mort Artu, whilst in Chrétien de Troyes's Yvain, the Knight of the Lion, he is unable to stay awake after a feast and has to retire for a nap.
That said, he's great at finding things out - when we meet him in Silent City, we learn that he's a bit of a fallen journalistic star, having put together a decent track record as a sports reporter in New Jersey before having to return home to Miami after his father's death.
History -- Help your child make a drama about the Indian independence movement and play all the characters Play silent charades to learn about various historical occurrences.
Sitting silent for ten days and learning to meditate were, as it turned out after all the resistance, the close call with Lyme disease, and the pain my hips, knees, and ass experienced, a beautiful experience.
