Word: teachers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...forced upon the casual student caring only for its cosmic position, at the expense of an understanding of its scope and color. All students, save those with professional intent are casual as compared with their instructors; wherefore the instructor must assume two distinct beings, the scholar and the teacher. In the one he must be thorough systematic; in the other he must own a genius for stepping outside of himself to correctly apportion, emphasize, and attract...
...grade of "A", led by Professor Morris Raphael Cohen of the Philosophy Department. A some more received "B" marks, 40 were graded "O", while 15 professors were marked "IV" ten "E" and five "F". The prime consideration, it is announced has been the professor's general ability as a teacher. Personality and knowledge of the subject were considered secondary factors, while glittering, platitudinizng and liberal posing have been marked very low as creating an ephemeral and specious interest...
...words and dates of so many authors, than it is to find out whether he has absorbed the bases of a real literary appreciation and taste. This is true to a greater extent even in music, as Dr. Davison shows in this book. It is easier for the teacher, the mediocre, half-educated teacher that is unfortunately the rule in our schools, to give the pupils exercises requiring knowledge of the mathematical side of music, than it is to instill in them a love of the best music. Another great evil to which our attempts at standardization of education...
...child's lips were locked. Seized with black despair in the face of ignorance that she could not dispel, and of suffering that she had caused, Teacher Hickman lapsed completely into the primitive. She lashed out with her broomstick in a shower of blows. She squatted on the floor, clenched her teeth and battered the child's shins until he toppled upon the floor, still silent about...
...revealed a fracture in Jimmy Christman's left tibia. He lay abed in a plaster cast, reading the life of Napoleon Bonaparte.* His classmates were safeguarded against Teacher Hickman by her removal...