Word: instruction
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...first element of a good teacher should be - after his competency to teach - that he takes a vivid interest in those he is to instruct. He should attempt to know them more than superficially, and to understand their peculiarities and ability, in order to make his instruction as beneficial as possible to each individual. For students cannot all be run through the same mould, like bullets, but allowance must be made for individual taste and proficiency...
...cent below the average for the express purpose of lightening his own work. This course of action seems to suggest - what is elsewhere apparent - that some of the professors forget that students make a university, and that professors' chairs have been endowed for men whose work it is to instruct students. It is therefore highly unjust that instructors should continue this practice in order merely to suit their own convenience. If the work becomes too much for one man he ought to get assistance, but never to turn his peaceful marking-machine into a weeding-machine; for the uses...