Word: teachers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...practically nil for American youngsters whose parents were in the Islands for military or commercial reasons. At that time, I remember going to a Catholic school in Cotabato where all instruction was given by men in Spanish and I was the only white pupil. Shortly after, an American school teacher opened a public school, and I transferred to it. I sat between a Moro kid, a Chinese, and two Mestizos, and I joined heartily in "My countree 'tis off dee" every time a visitor showed up. What a relief it was to go to Baguio with twenty odd other...
Adolph Simon Ochs was a teacher's son who had begun on his own as newsboy and printer's devil. Working on through nearly every standard newspaper job, he had bought the Chattanooga Times when he was 20, paying for it $250 (borrowed) and assuming its debts...
Beautiful is the "Prayer of Maimonides," 12th Century Jewish physician-philosopher-teacher: "0 God, Thou hast formed the body of man with infinite goodness; thou hast united in him innumerable forces incessantly at work like so many instruments, so as to preserve in its entirety this beautiful house containing his immortal soul, and these forces act with all the order, concord and harmony imaginable. . . . 0, God, Thou hast appointed me to watch o'er the life and death of Thy creatures; here am I, ready for my vocation." Medical students study this prayer, along with the "Oath of Hippocrates...
There are various ways of teaching "good citizenship"-presumably a major aim of education. In Scarsdale, N. Y., the schoolchildren who trip matutinally to the two elementary schools or the six-year High School are taught in terms of business. Teacher gives them a lesson which is considered a "contract." By learning their lessons, the children fulfill their contracts, achieve a sense of responsibility, advance toward their looming citizenship with proper civic consciousness. In the Montezuma Mountain School for Boys, Los Gatos, Calif., children actually live like citizens. After a two-week campaign, the upper students elect a mayor...
...open meeting of the Boston Menorah Council, to be held in Phillips Brooks House tomorrow evening at 7.45 o'clock. Dr. Alfred Marcus, a graduate of the Harvard Medical School and a prominent New York physician and teacher, will be the principal speaker. His subject will be "Exciting Moments in the Life of a Scholar...