Word: teach
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...teach the experience of English-speaking peoples in the administration of justice scientifically and sympathetically is one of the surest ways of perpetuating American institutions, of dispelling plausible political crudities, and of insuring a sane and orderly legal and political development. The proper functioning of our political institutions presupposes the orderly maintenance of right by the state...
...Nothing is taught at Harvard that cannot be learned elsewhere in half the time that Harvard takes to teach it." With such an ultimatum does that worthy journal, the Boston Advertiser, place ashes upon the grave of any over-sanguine faith in Harvard University...
...sufficient training in thought per se afforded by the usual American college education. And he is no doubt right. For the usual American education according to his connotation is not either adequate or honest. Men long versed in the knowledge that half truths are more profitable than whole truths teach the youth of the country to adopt the half truths and smile...
...system of instruction in college which holds promise of being one of the great events in American education. When Johns Hopkins founded the university of his name, a higher and different idea of a university than any in this country began. When the Harvard Law School began to teach law by the case system it revolutionized legal teaching in this country. These are two outstanding examples, and the results in each instance were the same. Not only did better teaching produce better results but also better boys flocked to the better teaching. In its desire to be a national...
...this advance will not reach its goal unless there is more money spent upon it than Harvard College now has to spend. Quantity production of college graduates is a fairly cheap proceeding. We have been turning them out in great numbers in this country. But to teach men as individuals costs money more money than America has been willing to pay. The question is whether the money will be forthcoming to support this improvement at Harvard and advances of a similar nature that are being tried at Swarthmore and Dartmouth. It will be interesting to see whether the country...