Word: teacher
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with his hands and senses in the care of the sick when he has been brought up in the present pass-the-buck atmosphere of the ordinary hospital mechanism for the diagnosis and care of the sick. The more work done by the student and the less by the teacher, the better the product. It is not what we know but what we actually use that counts in medical practice. Don't measure education in the terms of talk. Get that."? Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur, president of Stanford University...
...been at it very long, but long enough to find out that the phenomenon of two and two equaling four is dull dumplings to young minds. You have to bring two and two to life somehow if you want to hear four discussed at recess. . . . Last fortnight Teacher Gaylord invited some fathers and mothers to her classroom, in the morning. In front seats, grinning, sat a picked team of 15, her best mathematicians from the sixth, seventh and eighth grades. Teacher Gaylord singled out a father with more apparent bounce than the rest and had him act as captain...
...figurers went to the blackboard in pairs?a father, a pupil. Teacher Gaylord, crouched on her chair between them, snapped out the problems...
Some have pointed to the tall, spare, angular figure of President Few as the best guarantee against "monkey-bills" in the South. Of ancient and distinguished lineage, he rose to fame as a scholar and teacher of English literature. "Religion and education; not two but one and inseparable" is the motto of Duke University. Last autumn he added a school of religion to his university, but it is no secret that this scholar-gentleman looks forward most eagerly to establishing a great medical school. Meanwhile five sons attach him to youth...
...Normal" schools received their name (Latin: norma = rule) from one Joseph Lakanal, who agitated for teacher-training (Ecoles Normales) in France, in 1794. M. Lakanal was later president of the University of Louisiana...