Word: pupil
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Hearing recitations, Colonel Parker says, is not teaching, by any means. Teaching is the bringing of new ideas into the mind through objects, classifying ideas, comparing them, and combining them into new creatures of the imagination. Rote learning is simply inculcating stupidity, both in pupil and teacher. It will be a happy day for the public schools when all teachers are made to understand these plain truths...
...have never seen a more complete collection of animal painters: Rosa Bonheur, Peyrol Bonheur, Verboeckboven, Van Marcke, Voltz, Burnier, Ceramano, Jacque and Schenck, master and pupil, all are well represented. Rosa Bonheur's picture is small but inimitable; little variety of color but strong and natural, - a sheep, a black one at that, covered up in a wealth of green grass. There is one of the earlier attempts of Van Marcke. It is not marked by that hard, firm finish which his later works possess...
...faculty's decision in regard to Professor Ko's pupil from '83, is as follows: His six hours a week in Chinese for the past half year will count as a three-hour elective for the year, and the omitted three hours may be made up by him either this year or next year...
There was excitement at the Adams school in Quincy yesterday, when the mother of a pupil who had been chastised entered the building and attempted to wreak physical vengeance upon the principal. The woman was with some difficulty quieted...
...from sympathizing with this open insubordination of the students, we cannot wholly exonerate the Faculty. Partly from the consciousness of their own independence, and partly from the slight restraint exercised over them by the Trustees, the Faculty of Exeter have become too arbitrary towards, and too exacting of, their pupils. There is not that close relation existing between instructor and pupil which we should like to see in a preparatory school. The instructors, while assuming the dignity of university professors, treat the scholars as boys. All are shaped for college with one machine, and the only oil used...