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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...they teach, b) social conditions, c) children; and 2) they don't like children. Average training of U. S. elementary schoolteachers is less than two years of normal school. Teaching attracts a less able group than any other profession. Moreover, the chances are seven-to-one that a pupil in twelve years of public schooling will get two teachers who are neurotic or downright psychopathic for these reasons...
...report also charged that city has the highest "per pupil salary cost" in Massachusetts. The bulletin attacked the increased pay rate for schoolteachers saying that the number of teachers had risen by 106 since 1926 while the number of pupils had dropped...
...Boulanger (TIME, Feb. 28, 1938). For 30 years in her Paris studio Pedagogue Boulanger has been quietly hatching out one adept music-writer after another. Nearly every younger modernist who has ever been near Paris has taken a few lessons from her. Last week Teacher Boulanger took her prize pupil to Manhattan, there led the Philharmonic-Symphony in accompaniment while he played his best-known composition. The pupil: a slight, dark-haired, 26-year-old Frenchman named Jean Frangaix. The composition: his tricky, chattering, exuberant Piano Concerto, recorded four months ago by Victor (TIME, Nov. 7). Manhattanites were not impressed...
...Contrasted with New York City children's disastrous ignorance was the attitude of youngsters in suburban Bronxville. There boys and girls are taught the facts of life in school. Asked a parent: "Don't you talk about all this outside of class?" Replied a pupil: "Yes, we do some, but there's not much to talk about. Everyone knows as much as everyone else...
Three things which a prospective teacher might derive from professional courses in education, Holmes said, are: (1) an understanding of the part played by general intelligence in the progress of a pupil; (2) an understanding of the special mental operations and habits required by the course; and (3) knowledge of the personal factors which may interfere with school work...