Word: teachers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...such men if he tries to approach them not from the angle of their particular field but on the common ground of general culture. I fail to see why tutorial instruction should be confined within the limits of the field of concentration; after all, the tutor is a teacher of the student as a student and not as a possible specialist. So, if the tutor cannot convert the average student into a specialist, he can nevertheless help him become an educated...
...defects of our educational regime may be summed up in one phrase: arbitrary separation of what should be joined. We separate the library from the living room, the activities from the studies, the teacher from the student; we separate the undergraduate from the graduate, so that the former is apt to be too youthfully irresponsible and the latter too serious and professional: we separate one department of knowledge from another: finally we separate education from life itself, so that when the college course is over we abandon books and serious discussion and lapse into a life of mere business, estranged...
...teacher of American history must sacrifice truth to the spreading of patriotic myth, according to Robert L. Joyce, a New Jersey high school instructor. In this way and no other, he says can such traditions be evoked as will make the United States a homogeneous nation. Mr. Joyce believes that the disillusionment of the child brought up on myth-history is unimportant to the country, and will have no permanently evil effect on the patriotism so inculcated...
...said (TIME, Aug. 24, Page 5) in sketching the career of Mr. H. P. Davison, that he "was a young man who be gan earning his living at 16 as a school teacher. He never got a college education. He got a job as office boy in a small bank, etc." It seems to be clearly implied that his student days were over before or when...
Having made its discovery, the Bureau lapsed into silence again, with perfunctory repetition of the classic hortative: "Closer co-operation between the teacher and parent...