Word: teach
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Shaffer, who announces himself as having been professor in the University of Pennsylvania, proposes to teach the people of Boston how to ac quire foreign languages. He promises "complete courses of one week each in German, Latin, Greek and French." He offers the French verb on the back of a postage stamp...
...development of biological teaching at the University of Cambridge has been rapid and successful. One branch of it, that of animal morphology, has been created there by Mr. F. M. Balfour, and it has grown to its present importance through his ability as a teacher and his scientific reputation. It has been urgently represented to the council that the welfare of biological studies at Cambridge demands that Mr. Balfour's department should be placed on a recognized and less precarious footing, and in this view the council concur. They accordingly recommend that there shall be established in the university...
...year, careful advice from parents and instructors is taken. Advice from instructors "is asked and given to a considerable extent, and it will be asked more and more as the intercourse between student and instructor becomes more and more natural." The main policy of all her instruction is "to teach men to go, instead of being led." This is the key-note of her whole system - to give the power of self-directed and watchful thought; - the trained habit of mind which enables a man to think continuously and accurately. This is what "Harvard's degree will mean." The system...
...exchange asks: "Who will teach Harvard how to read the turkey tracks on tea chests, now that her Chinese professor is no more...
...French Senate, Saturday, discussing compulsory education, rejected, by a vote of 167 to 123, an amendment by M. Jules Simon, requiring school-masters to teach their pupils duty toward God and the country...