Word: teach
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Some say that the theatre is a bad influence," declared Mr. William Saymour, "Some that it is a good one, and some that it is no influence at all. I must disagree with that, for I have seen the repertory company teach the public to be critical. At the Old Boston Museum when the same actors followed each other about the country playing in the same places audiences vied with each other in criticizing the fine points of stage art. Now, of course, such a thing is impossible...
Governor Austin Peay of Tennessee received from his legislature a bill. The legislators of Tennessee saw fit to make it unlawful for any teacher in the universities, normal or other schools of the State which obtain state funds "to teach any theory that denies the story of the divine creation of man as taught in the Bible, and to teach instead that man has descended from a lower order of animals...
...message from G. B. Shaw said: "As the amoeba does not understand birth control, it cannot abuse it and therefore its state may be the more gracious ; but it is also true that, as the amoeba cannot write, it cannot commit forgery; yet we teach everybody to write unhesitatingly, knowing that if we refuse to teach anything that could be abused, we should never teach anything...
...White Mountains. It is the price always paid for strength and excellence, above all for the steady resistance to dogma, religious, political and economic; it is the sharp wind that blows the harder, the swifter and the better the ship. Harvard as a spiritual entity whose function is to teach and haply to educate the youth, asks nothing better than to be counted a worker in our American Commonwealth, but as such entity cannot and must not have its facts manufactured for it, its thoughts directed or controlled. For these reasons, it is not seldom criticised by some...
...requirements for academic promotion ought to be based not on erudition alone, but on personality and ability to teach...