Word: pedagogic
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...hygienic methods of ventilation-these school details and many another have been well thought out. But punishment is still crude, unscientific, oldfashioned. You cane one child, thwack another, smack a third. Why should chastisement not be up-to-date, simple, exact? So ran the musings of a smart Australian pedagog. Last week the startled Ministry of Education in Sydney received, and began to ponder, a strange result of his thoughts: a contraption of many wheels, dials, weights, levers, by which a cane is caused to swish down, with precisely regulated force and direction, upon childish fundaments...
...daughter each two years of college, letting them work for the rest of the way. Readers who recommend the full college course for the son exactly balance those who recommend it for the daughter. A few are noncommittal. There is one notable dissenter: William McAndrew, the impish bearded pedagog who was forced by one-time Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson to retire in 1928 as Chicago's Superintendent of Schools. Wrote...
...Prettiest passage in the Garner acceptance letter: "It is not government business to make individuals rich, though too often has government been bent to that purpose. . . . Attempting to enforce morals by law [is] an unjustifiable invasion of the field preempted by the churches and schools. . . . Government is not a pedagog nor a parson nor a pied piper; it is merely a convenience of civilization...
...past three years nearly 40 reorganizations have taken place among U. S. colleges and universities. Many a pedagog makes moan, but last week it was pointed out by the Association of American Colleges that this readjustment is "the integration of the American college. . . . Duplication of effort is being reduced, and systems of colleges are being organized. While taking toll of weakness, the depression has at the same time tended to conserve and enhance strength wherever found." Hence, mergers, consolidations and closures have in the main been justified...
...friendly, mild-mannered pedagog. Historian Muzzey nonetheless stood his ground. He quoted Fite's History of the U. S. and Greene's Foundations of American Nationality which call Oglethorpe's colonists "the King's poverty-stricken subjects." and "poor but honest debtors." Said he: "I have never cared to enter controversies. . . . There was no shadow of an idea in my mind of casting any aspersions on the people of Georgia. . . . It is a just manifestation of local pride that the Savannah Board of Education should protest...