Word: teacher
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Experience is a wise old teacher, but her lessons come high. At this particular time, when the choice of courses for next year is incumbent upon juniors, sophomores, and freshmen, one is likely to hear it said that the best way to select courses is by the professors who give them. False doctrine! for unfortunately one's fate in a course rests too little upon the professor. There is always an attendant possibility for better or for worse which cannot be overlooked. So long as the latter possibility remains, the big question is not "Who gives the course...
...faith of the age is in congresses and mass action. Last week, the National Parent-Teacher Assocition mobilized in Austin, Tex., for its 29th annual congress. Mrs. Drury W. Cooper of Montclair, N. J., national chairman of membership, reported that the Association's roll had reached 875,000. She presented the Louisiana delegation with a banner for increasing its membership 274% in the past year...
Seats. "If the Parent-Teacher Association should do nothing but provide more comfortable seats [hygienic, adjustable] for the school children of the Nation, it would more than justify its existence."-Mrs. B. F. Langivorthy, Winnetka, Ill., the Association's Vice President...
...system of instruction at the Military Staff College in Tokyo is modeled on that of American colleges to a very great extent. Professor Okada, who is himself a teacher of English literature, was most interested in hearing English lectures...
...know, it is very difficult to teach Milton to my students. There is so much mythology and fine detail which is unintelligible to the Japanese, that it is nearly impossible to teach more than a small amount of Milton's works. I was surprised at how quickly the teacher read 'Paradise Lost' and the boys understood...