Word: teachers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hertz and all his musicians came to know them, and call the baby their mascot. Yehudi's first interest was in Concert- master Louis Persinger. He wanted to touch him, to finger the strings of his violin. When Yehudi was four years and ten months old, Persinger became his teacher. In five years he helped him to an almost uncanny understanding of his instrument. He did more when he did nothing to make the boy aware of himself or his talent, and the Russian father and the Tartar mother have been just as wise. Yehudi lives on a regular schedule...
...chief trouble, as I see it, is the lack of contact, or rather of the right contact, between student and teacher. I know that the introduction of the tutors has been designed to overcome this defect, but I feel that their wings are clipped before they start by the very nature of their task. Their purpose is to help their men prepare for the general examinations in English-- examinations based on the assumption that knowledge of English literature is to be attained only through a survey of each period in its historical development, and through a study of all representative...
...made a great concession to the importance of teaching, of inspirational contact between instructor and student, in undergraduate work, but before the system can achieve any true educational success the constraining of feet of the divisional examinations must be removed. With them constantly in sight, literature becomes for teacher and taught a mere field of cut and dried grain that must be hastily gathered in before the storm. It is unappetizing but necessary fodder--not a thing of beauty, allve, and to be enjoyed for its own sake...
...greater development of the contact between student and teacher, English A, as well as the tutorial system, offers opportunities worthy of inquiry. In this first year of college work a man may wield great personal influence over his Freshmen, and it is important that the work be made sufficient appealing to draw those who have the power to exert such an influence. Some motion has already been made to give the instructors a chance to express their own tastes in the particular kind of work they are to teach. In the second half year the various sections of the course...
...draws a very misleading distinction between our members, for I am sure you will find that most if not all of those who are catalogued as professors are themselves students, busily engaged in the prosecution of their studies, and I suspect you will find that many of your best teachers here, whose teaching you will value most highly in later years, will be found among those who are catalogued as students. We welcome you who come from other lands precisely because you come in the double capacity of student and teacher. If any such distinction must persist, I wish there...