Word: teachers
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...MacMillan was born in Province-town in 1874, and attended Bowdoin College, from where he received his A. B. degree in 1898. For several years he was a school teacher, being principal of the Levi Hall High School of North Gorham, Me., from 1898-1900. He was head of the Classical Department of the Swarthmore Preparatory School from 1900 to 1903 and an instructor at Worcester Academy from 1903 to 1908. During the years of 1910-11 and 1912-13 he studied in the Graduate Schools of the University...
...positions offered in the Eastern countries, however, in which the teacher satisfies the greatest need. For years the institutions of learning in the Far East have lacked capable men to teach the more modern subjects with the result that an almost indefinite number of positions in such schools are open to them. Moreover there is special inducement to take one of such positions because in almost every case the teacher is provided with traveling expenses during the summer during which he is at liberty to study the customs and character of the people with whom he is working. Most...
...teacher," said Professor Chafee, "must have the privileges of the doctor, the lawyer, and the rest of the professions. If the universities are to draw the best men into their teaching staffs, they cannot limit the right of every man to investigate and teach in his own field, or to give expression outside the classroom to his views, on whatever subject he chooses...
...only limitation on the freedom of discussion of the university teacher should be that he act and speak as a scholar. The moment the thinking man is restricted in his thought half the value of his work is destroyed. You cannot say to Galileo, 'Use your telescope, but don't discover that the earth revolves about...
...task of training teachers is difficult and cannot be conducted without the development of something much nearer an adequate science and philosophy of education than we now have. Trained teachers are already infinitely superior to untrained teachers, but much remains to be done before teacher-training institutions can hope to be reasonably successful in their own effort...