Word: teach
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Obliged to earn her living, Selina goes out to teach school at an "incredibly Dutch settlement" in the suburbs of Chicago. It is called High Prairie; its inhabitants are truck farmers; it is dreary enough to make Gopher Prairie look like a corner at Oxford Circus. While there she marries Pervus Dejong, impecunious farmer. Immediately she finds herself being dragged down to the level of High Prairie life...
...Selina's heart is mended by the return of Roelf Pool, onetime Dutch boy she used to teach in High Prairie, now a famed artist, who recognizes in her the one who started him on his career. And Dirk discovers that he is really in love with Dallas O'Mara, girl artist, and- realizing that they two don't live in the same world-is led to question (bitterly) his ostensibly shining success...
Real education, in place of the fatuously, inefficient machine symbolized by the "little red school house", is the chief ultimate remedy for the ills of America, according to Rabbi Wise. "Our present educational system does no more than drill the memory, and entirely neglects to teach students to think. That is why thousands of men make themselves ridiculous parading as Klan members in costumes ordinarily associated with the privacy of the home; that is why we have political corruption, party politics, and many other ills. Men will remain in criminal mental lethargy, however, until education is a democratic reality rather...
...Gone," he murmured, "they'll all be gone. I don't know what they are but they'll all be gone, all these little things. They'll have no use. All a university needs is men to teach and room to teach in--and books. The students will come, thousands of them. They will eat where they can, live where they can, work as they choose and stay or go as they like. Some will go. Some will stay and a degree will be an award of honor. It was all better so and it will be so again...
...Committee on Athletics especially valuable, as well as constituting him a most helpful adviser for the students themselves. For these reasons, his statement that he feels his job is one for a young man is much too modest. It may be possible to find a young man to teach Freshman Hygiene, but there is an extraordinary dearth of young men with executive ability, human understanding and far-sightedness, combined with the requisite technical knowledge...