Word: teacher
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reading consists mainly of a selection of actual cases from the law reports. The class room work consists first of a statement of the case by the student and then of an open discussion of the principles involved by the Socratic method of question and answer in which the teacher seeks to put the student through the mental processes by which decisions are come at, rules laid down and principles developed. The test of efficiency comprises a four-hour examination of ten questions for each full year course. These questions are nearly always concrete cases, not infrequently taken from...
...George's School, Newport, Rhode Island, has notified the University Appointment Office that there is a position open at the school as teacher of Latin and German, of Latin and English, or any other language combination. Former experience, although desirable, is not necessary. The salary for the work, which begins about mid-years, will be liberal...
This position is only open for a half year but there will be an opportunity for the man who accepts it to secure another one in the school next fall. The prospective teacher must be interested in boys' activities, especially athletics. Further information concerning this position can be obtained at the Appointment Office, 11 University Hall, Cambridge, or from Mr. S. P., Cabot '92, Headmaster, St. George's School, Newport, Rhode Island...
...that what business most needs today is the infusion of the religious spirit. Industry today needs nothing so much as it needs the Golden Rule. And there is no corrective to lawlessness and social disorder to equal the sanctions of religion. Therefore when a man undertakes to be a teacher of religion, he is assuming a task that is fundamental to the welfare of our modern world...
...controversial interest. There is, for example, almost no subject, outside of the Irish question, more likely to arouse latent passion that educational theory. Does our author vociferate that the moderns are right and that the older method of hammering knowledge into resistant minds is the only true one? "The Teacher's Dilemma" never raised its tone above politeness, and yet it is of more value than much arguing. The same genial spiral marks the discussion of such other matters as efficiency, genius, reconstruction, bolshevism, and what not. All this is both to say that we have here a volume...