Word: teacher
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...notion seems to be prevalent that the inspirational teacher must of necessity, be an interior scholar. It seems to students that just the opposite is true: that the highest scholarship is that which is riches in human values and that the presence of this additional human quality is that which distinguishes the scholar teacher from the pedant of the old Germanic school...
...notion seems to be prevalent that the inspirational teacher must of necessity, be an inferior scholar...
...school for financial reasons, having simply "lost interest," having returned to study because convinced by experience that "education pays." In Milwaukee and Portland, Ore., 6% of the population goes to night school. The national proportion is 51½%. Some 150,000 in university extension courses.* The type: a woman teacher aged 30, studying Romance languages, English, mathematics, history. California and North Carolina are her habitat...
...grades of intelligence to recite the Ten Commandments, not necessarily exactly, but at least in substance. The first group he queried-and the idea of questioning arose by accident from discussion-included eleven persons between 35 and 60 years of age, all in professions except a Sunday school teacher. None knew all ten. Their average was 5.72. Next he tested 48 people-14 college professors, 18 newspaper men and women of high rank, 10 literary men and women and 6 prominent business men. Most were college graduates and all between 35 and 60. Only one, Professor William P. Montague...
...high hats met her at the Capitol and handed her the keys of the city while a fine crowd applauded. She held an informal reception for her girlhood friends in the Governor's reception room; then she went to luncheon with Mrs. Alice C. Henniger, local music teacher (who discovered her voice). At five o'clock she was guest of honor at a high green tea of the Henniger School of Music; next day she gave a concert at the Little Rock High School (which she used to attend when she could steal a morning from the Pastor...