Word: teach
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...iron hand. The instructors' chairs are not indeed bought and sold or given to absolutely ignorant members of the military as they were in Nicholas I.'s time. But the professors, however learned or talented, under the restrictions of the Czar, are forced into mere educating machines to teach by rote the blessings of a military despotism. They have long since learned to hold their tongues not only upon the subject of the Government, but upon history, philosophy, economics, and nearly every other topic of the higher learning. But recently a Professor so bold as to translate your English John...
...objection of the faculty, it was urged in reply, was to professionalism in toto. Toleration of it in a modified form even was as bad almost as its most aggravated development as now illustrated at Yale, and the experience of the England Universities in recent years would teach us that nothing less than a total abolition of all connection with the professional and sporting world, with lines sharply defined, would serve as a remedy...
...evening he came to our house much terrified. He said that he had been attending a faculty meeting and that an explosive placed outside the door by some mischievous students had burst just as he was passing through the doorway. He insisted that it was no use trying to teach the students Greek, and because he did not do much work in the classroom he would not accept the salary of a full professor. His principle income was from the publication of his various works pertaining to Greek...
...said ; 'but are you going to adopt any profession ? Are you going to teach, or start a school, or pratice any particular calling...
...excepts a scientific fact like the Darwinian theory, that he is supposed to be going to the bad. A man comes here to be broadened in his views. not to be taught dogmatically what he shall and what he shall not believe. Our university is founded only to teach men how to think, and not what to think. It must, therefore be unsectarian, but on this account it does not become irreligious. Freedom of worship is a necessary factor in any liberal form of government. And moreover, on the score that the influence here is toward indidelity we emphatically deny...