Word: teacher
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...will gainsay the statement that no great change in the average student's attitude towards work can be attained unless the major impetus be supplied by the teacher. Accordingly, to better the student it is necessary to better the teacher...
...under his supervision. Some of them have come from other universities and have been astonished to find that the physical equipment they found at the end of their pilgrimage was insignificant beside the physical equipment that their own universities offered in the same field. They found that the great teacher, whose name was familiar in every American university, had practically no real physical equipment at all at his disposal. They saw him accept, with as good grace as possible, dingy rooms here or there which the corporation appeared to have no other use for, first in Dane Hall, then...
...first ten chapters, replete with graceful, pipe-in-mouth poses by the author, meticulously initiate the duffer into the serious mysteries of golf. Like any instruction book, this part is all very involved and reiterative, so eager is the teacher to tell all he knows and to be perfectly clear. He advances nothing new or profound, unless it is an emphatic command that the left toe shall "claw" the ground and the eye be fastened not upon the ball as a whole, but upon one particular dimple of the ball. The style advocated is the straight-armed, full-swinging British...
Those colleges which limit their enrolment "in order to give a few students a better training" must in the end sustain a very heavy burden of proof; they select the best students, they say, but they retain the same teachers, and one fancies the instruction will remain much as before. I know colleges which have carried the "limiting" fever into the classes, and boast that they have improved the quality of their teaching because this or that course, which used to be open to anyone who elected it, is new strictly limited to twenty or fifteen. Well, it depends...
...teachers must aim higher. Of course we might make some changes in the small traditional colleges, to wake them up. I have often thought we might examine all the students at the end of the sophomore year, and those who proved their ignorance we could present with their A. B. diploma and send home. If one is doing nothing but accumulate college life two years will suffice to accumulate it all. The other students, who had learned something, we might keep on for the four years, and at the end we might give them too their A. B. diplomas...