Word: teachers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...come between Mr. Duggan and Mr. McCracken. I found many strange figures in this connection, and I though of three of a kind and that did not seem to do at all, because both of them are administrators and, thank God, I am nothing but a teacher now. Then I conjured the figure of a sandwich, and I was different from them; I might be something different between them, and that did not seem to be very acceptable when I thought of the different kinds of sandwiches and what went between them; I did not like the choice or sandwiches...
...reformed German schools tend to awaken a new feeling of brotherhood, and to overcome the differences of feeling between the aristocrats and the working boys. One innovation for creating a greater mutual understanding among all the students is a monthly all-day hike, which brings the teacher and his pupils very close together. But above all the new gymnasium teaches its students to recognize the meaning of a true culture of the mind...
...Ph.D. degree has come to be nothing more than a teacher's license," declared C. C. Brinton '19 to a CRIMSON representative yesterday. "The course for the degree is regarded as an ideal training for the life of a pedagogue, and the degree itself as an open sesame to a position on a school or college faculty." Mr. Brinton, who holds a Ph.D. degree from Oxford University, is now a tutor in the Division of History, Government and Cconomics...
...great deal of the research now accomplished is done by scholars on their own resources. It is done by University teachers who use their evenings and their summer vacations for the purpose. College authorities, all over the country, do Ilp-service to the principle that research and creative scholarship should be encouraged in every way; but let a teacher ask for fewer classroom hours in order to do his own writing he will usually find that the real interest of the College authorities does not go very deep...
...seriously to limit the free and frank statement of one's opinions and the reasons for holding them. This spirit is epitomized in the recent statement issued by the Board of Superintendents of the Department of Education of New York City, which definitely sets forth the theory that "a teacher is no longer at liberty to freely write, speak, or publish his opinions. We cannot concede that intellectual freedom is synonymous with insolence or vulgarity, or with the right to sneer at our institutions." This is at once the article of faith and the justification of a philosophy of administration...