Word: dean
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...interesting observation made by Dean Holmes was his assertion that the "untrained beginner. . . may arouse enthusiasm and interest which leads to a mistaken specialization in his subject on the part of students who ought for various reasons to be giving their main effort to a different subject...
...interesting observation made by Dean Holmes was his assertion that the "untrained beginner. . . may arouse enthusiasm and interest which leads to a mistaken specialization in his subject on the part of students who ought for various reasons to be giving their main effort to a different subject...
...more to teaching than a knowledge of the subject taught. This attitude is merely a single instance of a general attitude to the same effect that teachers are born and not made, that teaching is an art which no amount of training in the science of education can impart. Dean Holmes of the Harvard School of Education has summed it up as the opinion that "any fine boy or girl will make a good teacher" whether or not he has any knowledge of the technical aspects of teaching itself...
...Dean Holmes annual report is a significant educational doctrine. For it has logically and comprehensively stated the case for Graduate Schools of Education as training grounds for teachers. Such schools have two separate functions. They train educational administrators whose sole function will be formulation of general educational policy. They also train individual Latin and History teachers in the science of teaching. This first function is generally admitted. The second is almost generally denied...
...according to Dean Holmes, a good Latin teacher is versed not only in Latin but also in general educational theory: the psychological, the philosophical, and the sociological bases of education. Given such a technical knowledge of teaching itself, he will grasp his problems more fully and cope with them more capably once they are recognized...