Word: teachers
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...each hundred men in the Graduate School, Harvard being represented by the following men: A. H. Shearer 2G. and R. M. Yerkes 3G., regular delegates, and J. H. Patten 3G., delegate at large. A. H. Shearer will read a paper on "The College Professor as a Teacher...
Then there is the profession of teacher. One can do one of the greatest deeds for his country by educating its people, and raising its standard of intelligence...
...carried out. But, in order that the school may really fulfil the function for which it is established, it must have the active co-operation of the individual home and of the community. Unless the work of the school is re-enforced by home support, the efforts of the teachers will not meet with an appropriate response from the pupils. The teacher may work as hard as he can but he cannot rely on a corresponding effort on the part of the pupil if the pupil's parents are indifferent or possibly even averse to the aims and work...
...service in memory of the late Dean Everett was held night in Divinity Chapel. Professor Emerton spoke first, confining himself to the life of Dr. Everett as a teacher and a great thinker. After a reference to his philosophical beliefs and writings, he showed how these had affected his theological ideas and had broadened his view as a teacher...
Another comment on the "new fashioned education" concerns what is expected of teachers. The value that is set on text-books induce teacher to give up a great part of their time to writing. Dean Briggs regards this value as overrated. The first duty of the teacher is to teach, writing should be a secondary affair, and not something on which to estimate an instructors worth, as the new education seems to do. By encouraging independent writing and research, it is possible that we have been unfitting the teachers, as teachers, for the student...