Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When the small group of students who had elected these courses to their schedules arrived at the classroom for the first meeting, no instructor appeared to take charge of the work. Thus far, no one has been found among the University faculty who is able to teach Chinese until the arrival of Dr. Mei, and these students are receiving an unlooked for vacation. Dr. Mei will probably arrive in about four weeks...
...have opportunities the others could make no use of. But the moment you try to give each the help he needs, you find your school or college dividing itself up into an "intellectual department store", as it should divide; and when you realize that all your teaching in the classroom is vain if it is contradicted by the spirit or atmosphere of the student's home, you feel bound to carry the opportunity of education into that home, and your school or college is embarked on adult education. So much the better. Thus will end the rubber stamp the stereotype...
...number of ways Dartmouth is injecting a new spirit into the classroom. Students in its labor problems classes are not compelled to listen exclusively to one professor summing up all "sides" of the industrial struggle in a fruitless attempt to be impartial. They have had the opportunity of listening during the past two years to such speakers as James A, Emery, counsel for the National Association of Manufacturers Matthew Woll of the American Federation of Labor, Julia O'Connor of the telephone workers of Boston, Robert Amory, president of the National Association of Cotton Manufacturers; John L. Barry, president...
...blackboards, shut their desks, drew their pay, boarded trains for Washington, D. C. There they swarmed upon the steps of the National Capitol for a vesper service that opened the 62nd annual meeting of the National Education Association. That organization now has 140,000 members, of which 80% are classroom teachers...
...authorities still feel required to deal with the undergraduates as one disciplines a recalcitrant school boy. If probation is intended as a warning, as an incentive to study, then the present system is a lamentable failure. The psychology of offering a man eligibility in return for improvement in the classroom cannot be denied...