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...idea how dumb she is! Why, when we were at school, I used to have to do all her homework for her." All quite impossible. "I used to have to do" puts my teeth on edge. Neither "dumb" nor "homework" are in my vocabulary. Gertrude was a brighter pupil than I was, and more often "honorably promoted," that is, without the obligation of final examinations. We did no homework and the word was not in use with us. We studied our lessons in school study hours. If Author Putnam had known better the ways of Oakland public schools...
Imitating v. Analyzing. . . . "We have been confused about education and training. [Training] is a process by which the pupil is taught to perform an act by imitating. [Education] should acquaint the student with ways of analyzing problems . . . he has never seen before...
...controversy raised a question: is Lady Beecham that good a pianist or is Sir Thomas just that good a husband? At ten, Betty Humby was the youngest pupil ever to win a scholarship at the Royal Academy of Music. At 14 she had 30 pupils of her own and at 16 she was a piano professor under Myra Hess. As a concert soloist, however, critics rate her as competent, not great...
...Roman, Saxon and Norman conquests; his father was vicar of a church built by the medieval Minster monks. As a boy he watched British seapower-in full sail-pass through the Channel. He prepped at 1,200-year-old Sherborne School, which claims Alfred the Great as a pupil...
Bell-Ringer. Whitehead began his teaching career 62 years ago as a mathematician at Cambridge. He and his famous pupil, Bertrand Russell, worked together for nine years on their Principia Mathematica, now on the St. John's list of the 100 Great Books, but strictly for specialists. Whitehead later became professor of mathematics at the University of London, quit (at 63) when faced with automatic retirement and came to the U.S. to start a new career on Harvard's philosophy faculty. He has written some 20 books on mathematics, science and philosophy (best-known: Science and the Modern...