Word: broader
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...many teachers fail or are less effective than they might be for the lack of a properly supervised apprenticeship: but even the practical training of a novice, to say nothing of more advanced study on the part of experienced workers, can not be well conducted apart from the much broader and more difficult work of training men and women for the supervision and direction of instruction, the organization of school programs and school systems, and the administration of educational enterprises. The study of the technique of teaching is, in fact, but one part of the preparation of a teacher...
...administration. It is hardly possible, of course, to emphasize too much the importance of education in the progress of democracy. The United States is certainly far from the stage at which its provision of education is commensurate with the needs of the nation. Men and women of larger ability, broader education, and better training are very greatly in demand. Public recognition of the educational leader, including his material reward, puts him in a situation more advantageous than any he has ever had before, and the demand is constant for those who can exercise fuller leadership and deserve still greater recognition...
...verse was. "I welcome new verse," he replied emphatically, "because I always try to keep an open mind and to stand with hands open and receptive to the gifts of the future; and I welcome the new verse because it offers a new form to help us to a broader and freer expression. This new verse will never supplant the old forms, however, for those old forms contain many musical and rhetorical possibilities necessary for the expression of the deeper melodies of the spirit. But I have a grievance against nine-tenths of the new verse. To my mind this...
...purpose for the establishment of this corps was to give the younger officers thorough grounding in all phases of consular work and by assignment to the larger and more important offices and contact with the broader problems which confront the Service. In this way they are exceptionally well trained for the grades which they are later to receive. The examinations for Consular Assistants and Student Interpreters, however, are less exacting...
...business and to do service to the greatest advantage" will be Mr. Hoover's policy in the thorough reorganization of the Department of Commerce. It is his plan to give this department a broader scope than it has hither to possessed. Separate bureaus of foreign and domestic commerce are to be created and co-operation will be furthered between various trade organizations. Then, too, by giving to this department many of the duties which at present are assigned to other executive departments, such as the Interstate Commerce Commission, the Directorship of Public Roads, and to Inland and Coastwise Waterways Service...