Word: preceptions
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...advise that the courses at this institution be arranged first with special reference to the training of preachers, teachers, lawyers and physicians, because these are most in the public eye and by precept and example can do most to uplift mankind. And, second, to instruction in chemistry, economics and history, especially the lives of the great earth, because I believe that such subjects will most help to develop our resources, increase our wisdom and promote human happiness...
...Belmont, who endowed her organization and purchased for it three large buildings near the Capitol, believes that the new parliament of women will function as a considerable moral influence on the Federal Congress, by giving example as well as precept...
...Order", that famous precept which swept Calvin Coolidge from the office of a well-known politician to the vice-presidency of a great world power, is tottering on the edge of a precipice. When the edict was first issued from beneath the golden dome on Beacon Hill the populace rose as one man to back up their popular leader; and for nearly three years "Law and Order" has been a sort of sub-motto for the Commonwealth...
President Lowell's report offers an abundance of food for thought. His remarks on educational methods, while less startling than other topics, offer some sound suggestions. Concretely, they are a defence of the old method of teaching by problem rather than by precept. "We learn to do by doing," he says. A degree of self-service in education is often of far more value than an equivalent amount of forcible feeding. The course in which a student must work out the answers to questions for himself, instead of learning the answers by rote, has many advantages: it is an agreeable...
...hour of English study, expect its students to aim at the ideal of pure speech? College and student are both at fault, and if the ability to speak reputably is a vital part of the well-educated man, then correct speech for its own sake must be emphasized in precept by the college, and in practice by the undergraduates. --Williams Record