Word: teacher
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...past the fallacious idea that any star in a sport is competent to coach teams in that sport has been widely held. As a matter of fact, this is no more true that every man that can do sums will make a good teacher of mathematics. Teaching is an art in itself, and this applies to athletic coaching as well as to every other form of instruction...
...college. The big universities are taking money under false, pretences," he says. The University professor "in merely filling his position in order to earn his living so that he can go on accumulating knowledge. He has no human interest in his students. He is an intellectual miser, not a teacher...
...scope of the Graduate School of Education is not adequately indicated by the phrase "the training of teachers". The School is much concerned, to be sure, with technical problems of teaching, and will always make special provision for inexperienced students, who need not only a general introduction to their profession but also a practical apprenticeship in the work of instruction. It would be difficult, however, to justify the establishment of a Graduate School for the sole purpose of perfecting teachers in craftsmanship. Not that this is unimportant; indeed it is highly desirable, and many teachers fail or are less effective...
...Graduate School of Education, pointed out the close association which should exist between the school and the State Department of Education. Both institutions have the same problems and the same goal, namely the advancement of civilization through better educational work. Dean Holmes, after frankly deploring the status of teachers in the United States, asserted that the troubles of schools were due basically to the lack of respect, pay and opportunity granted to the teaching profession. Conditions were quite the reverse in France, and before the war in Germany, the result being that the American teacher is less equipped to educate...
...Here we touch upon the didactic in literary art. Should a poet be a teacher? Yes, he should be a teacher, but not a mere preacher, not a mere pedagogue that puts before us the mere bare bones of a philosophy. The poet may be a teacher, but he will be a teacher who instructs by the indirection of beauty, by suggestion. The poet teaches as the bobolink teaches, by leaving upon us the inspirations of beautiful harmonies, so that the soul, without knowing it is elevated and noble...