Word: teachers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...education division of the U. S. Bureau of Education last week mulled over a report issued by its colleague, the statistical division. It was an encouraging sort of report; said that since 1922 there had been an increase of 25.5% among women. 30.1% among men, enrolled in U. S. teacher-teaching institutions; said that there were 40,963 more teachers-in-the-making in 1923 than in 1921; that 11 new teachers' colleges had opened, making 382 in all the U. S.; said that, taking the average training period of all these institutions as two years, only...
...present our unmanageable burden of knowledge seems to be leading us to a superficial, general knowledge or to increased specialization. While a certain amount of specialization is desirable and necessary in our complex civilization, it has certain important dangers. In the scientist and teacher it is almost sure to lead to such narrowness as that which has done more than anything else to kill interest in the clas- sics. And of even wider significance than this, intensive specialization destroys perspective and an ability to correlate the knowledge gained in the specialist's field with the other facts and phases...
...degree of effort demanded by the faculty. Such mechanical rules have proven successful before in driving the low-ranking undergraduate to the Pierian spring. For success over and above the minimum necessary to place a composition course on the standard level, an able instructor is prerequisite. Such a teacher would soon discover which of his pupils sought to shade the indispensable C close to its lower margin. For these men, administrative rigors of quantity and time are available...
...Harvard Teacher's Association, founded in 1891, is one of the oldest institutions of its kind in this country. The Association was originally organized by Professor P. H. Hanus, the first professor in the Harvard School of Education. For a number of years Professor Hanus undertook to carry on the duties of secretary of the Association during which time he built it up to its present proportions. After his resignation Professor Henry W. Holmes '03, Dean of the Graduate School of Education, was chosen for the office of secretary. Among the distinguished presidents of the association are the late James...
...Chairman of the Department, took a sabbatical year and generously gave half of his own salary to pay that of Royce. In the following year William James took his sabbatical under the same conditions. And that was how the great Professor Royce was brought to Cambridge. The splendid teacher, the fine scholar, the able professor like Josiah Royce is hard to find. But Harvard must always seek to find him, and be prepared financially to attract him when it does. To do this, unrestricted money is needed...