Word: teachers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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TIME was recommended by an instructor in College Extension Course. I find it indispensable as teacher in upper grades and in High School. The style is most refreshing and stimulating. It is never an effort to read TIME...
...Teacher in New York City Public Schools New York...
...understands that new teachers, subordinate teachers, must be young teachers; that the most capable young men are not always attracted to teaching as such; that thus men of calibre become teacher only on the side. Undoubtedly, the various employing authorities meet this attitude among prospective employees. Undoubtedly these authorities are not personally to blame for the economic and social position of the teaching profession. Yet, if they would provide attractive men to initiate novices into realms of knowledge, they must consistently offer some premiums to him who will emphasize the are of teaching. Scholarship has had its emphasis...
Professor William Lyon Phelps, nationally beloved teacher at Yale University: "I commented last week in Scribner's on the fact that three recent novels have manicure girls as their heroines (Mantrap by Sinclair Lewis, Prodigals of Monte Carlo by E. Phillips Oppenheim, Jones in Paris by Ward Muir). Of manicuring I wrote...
...every-day world. It is only, however, when those without serious intellectual purpose dominate the mass that the gravity of numbers becomes something other than a benign promise. It is especially of interest to notice in the announcements of the leading universities this year the increasing exchange of teachers with universities in other parts of the world. If this could take place to some considerable extent among American institutions. East with West, North with South, it would be another influence in putting the teacher above the institution, in giving the supreme place to the master instead of the administrative officer...