Word: speake
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...venture to say that you expected me to speak to you from the view point of the teacher and not from the view point of that other side of education dealing with the administration of the college. Those who hold the offices of administration, while they are dealing with the art of education, hold, nevertheless, a special position with regard to the profession, just as the judge on the bench holds a special position with regard to the profession of law. When a teacher goes in for administration he degrades both the office to which he succeeds and the profession...
...speak to you with reference to the claims of teaching as a profession, and I propose to treat it under the four following heads: first, in its relation to the student life; second, in its relation to the outside world; third, comparatively, how does this profession rank with other professions which may engage your attention? fourth, and last, what are some of the inward satisfactions coming from this profession, which I think are sufficiently great to attract men to it? Because in this, as in any other profession which we undertake, everything depends upon our being peculiarly qualified...
...secondary schools are concerned. I can speak with some knowledge of the life that would be yours, were you to go into teaching as a profession, and your road were to lie in a secondary school, for I had one year's experience. There you are, so to speak, seeing and coming into close contact with young life at the very source, before the time that the young life has drawn away from the early ideas formed in the home. I assure you that if you were to go into that sort of life, it would be a very delightful...
...mean to speak particularly of the relation that exists between pupil and teacher in our colleges, between members of the teaching force, and members of the student body. You, of course, look upon us as people who lie over on the other side of a barrier. You look upon us as people set in authority, more or less interfering with your occupations in undergraduate days, imposing tasks upon you, which perhaps we have a legal right to do, yet you feel that you would be better if we did not interfere. But in such an attitude you are losing...
...Lowell will be the principal speaker at a meeting in the Old South Church on Sunday in the interest of the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute. This is the first public address which he has made since his inauguration. George A. Gordon '81 and Booker T. Washington will also speak...