Word: teacher
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Since the war," he declared, "the new German generation has been far less physically fit than the youth of previous generations. I blame this on the influence of the War. Because of this a system has been established in Germany whereby, a teacher must take his students, between the age of six and 19 for an eight-hour hike once each month...
...Gymnasiums had separated themselves from the deepest roots of the historical German mentality and had become the bondsmen of the materialistic, industrialistic, and the technical age of Germany since 1870. They had drifted into a formless, superficial, and souless omniscience. In Germany one hears nowadays that the old school teacher won the war in 1870, and that the Gymnasium instructor lost the last...
...comment that education for Peace is precisely what a church does or at least should do. The world's greatest peace-maker and peace teacher is Jesus Christ. When men have learned to live up to the teachings of this Prince of Peace they will go to war no more. There are economic reasons against war, and political and eugenic and humanitarian reasons, good reasons all, but men will still resort to bayonet and bomb so long as they have not imbibed the spirit of the Nazarene. That spirit is religious, of God, and produced and multiplied in a place...
...choose among their viewpoints. The executive method of reading assignment devitalizes authoritative printed knowledge and bars the seeker from access to pre-professorial wisdom. It is a method which is fortunately yielding somewhat to the optional reading list. In time attractive lectures on sources may signify that the teacher is only a guide...
...Talleys looked around for another teacher, chose Ottley Cranston, who with Mrs. Cranston directs the Kansas City Civic Opera Company. Marion studied the roles of Mignon and Arline in the Bohemian Girl, sang them in May, 1922 (aged 15), Kansas City pricked up its ears. Jacob A. Harzfeld and John T. Harding did more than prick up their ears. They set about overcoming the Talley difficulty, which was lack of funds, arranged a series of concerts that netted $10,000, arranged through Otto Kahn an audition with the Metropolitan Opera authorities in November, 1922. There followed months of study...