Word: teachers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...French teacher looks at American education through a colored lense," said Assistant Professor Andre Morize yesterday afternoon in the sixth lecture for the Radcliffe Endowment Fund. He is prejudiced by three things, Professor Morize went on to say. First, French education is centralized and unified; secondly, the study of the classics is considered to be inseparable from education; and finally, French schoolboys are kept under strict discipline longer than Americans...
...wastefulness of our present system arises from the fact that we use the same method with all students irrespective of difference in ability," said Professor Neilson. "There is a far greater difference between the brightest and the poorest minds in a class than most people suppose. The teacher has to aim at the middle or even a little below the middle intelligence. In an average class of 75 men, the brightest scholars will do in thirty minutes, a lesson upon which the slowest students will labor for there hours. That is a ratio of one to six. The instructor must...
...chooses the latter course, he must make a still further decision. He may become "an advocate of force, a propagandist with a knife between his teeth" or he may contest himself with the more peaceful but no less useful life of a philosopher or teacher. Both classes of this second division have as a common function, "a search for truth without fear or favor". The members of both must be willing to stand on their feet and say what they think. Under our present civilization, Mr. Nearing continued, an ever increasing specialization is tending to disrupt all cooperation between different...
...sail from New York to take up land grants in Russia amounting to three thousand acres, which they are to develop according to the most approved modern methods in hope of educating the Russian peasant by furnishing a good working example. The group includes a blacksmith, a teacher, a physician, and a tailor, so that the party will make a perfectly self-sufficing village. The project is sponsored by the Society for Technical Aid to Russia. All the members are Russian...
...athletics or along some special line such as debating, dramatics, music, or carpentry. The following are a few specific illustrations, representative of the type of positions that are open at the present time: a dramatic coach for a group of young boys at the Roxbury Neighborhood House; a teacher of English and Civics at the Frances Willard House, Boston, to assist about 20 Italians in taking out naturalization papers; a basketball referee at the Norfolk Neighborhood House in Dorchester; and a wrestling instructor at the Elizabeth Pea-body House in Boston...