Word: teacher
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Assistant Principal Samuel S. Jaffe of Brooklyn's Public School No. 150 wanted to say singer, hanger, longing, banging, clingingly, his tongue betrayed him. So New York's Board of Examiners in 1934 unanimously rejected his application for a principal's license. Last week Teacher Jaffe, still awaiting the result of an appeal to the city's Board of Superintendents, filed another appeal with State Commissioner of Education Frank Pierrepont Graves. Although statistically Teacher Jaffe has one chance in 30 of persuading Commissioner Graves to interfere, his action moved the Board to consider how many...
Snorted scrappy old Associate Superintendent John Lee Tildsley: "A person could make an ng mistake and still be a very good teacher...
...statement issued on April 6 has been misconstrued in some quarters as a reflection on your teaching capacity and scholarly ability. I very much regret this. No such reflection was intended; the statement in my opinion cannot justly be taken as implying that you are not an able teacher or scholar. All that was meant or implied was that your political views and activities outside the University had nothing to do with the decision and that the choice among several candidates was made according to academic criteria...
This is exactly the problem as the "Crimson" sees it. A University teacher who ceases to add to his store of knowledge becomes stagnant and loses much of his value as an educator. On the other hand a man who is so preoccupied with his own self-instruction that he neglects his teaching responsibilities both in the class room and in tutorial conferences, is of no value to the undergraduate whatsoever. He serves only to emblazon the name of the University in scholarly publications, and to swell the volume of library books bearing the insignia of the University Press...
...been charged by the New Republic, by the report of the American Teacher's Association, and others that Yale authorities and the Corporation had infringed upon the liberty of speech and academic freedom of certain members of the faculty. However, in the case of Professor Davis, the investigating committee decided after an extensive examination of all evidence available, including a six day hearing at New Haven, that the Corporation did not violate these principles. They found "no conclusive evidence that objections to Dr. Davis's political and economic opinions or to his civic activities were the sufficient or the decisive...