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Spain Picasso was born in Málaga, Andalusia, Spain, 57 years ago last October 25, of a Basque drawing teacher named Blasco Ruiz and an Italian mother Maria Picasso. By the Spanish order of patronymics his name was Pablo Picasso y Ruiz, and he so signed his earliest pictures...
...Fine Arts teacher and the creator of Snow White first met last June when the latter came to Harvard to receive an honorary degree. The citation read: "Walter Elias Disney, a magician who has created a modern dwelling for the muses; his hand controls a multitude of elfin animals who charm all humans by their mirth...
...according to Dean Holmes, a good Latin teacher is versed not only in Latin but also in general educational theory: the psychological, the philosophical, and the sociological bases of education. Given such a technical knowledge of teaching itself, he will grasp his problems more fully and cope with them more capably once they are recognized...
This idea is not new. There are hundreds of Fallen Oak Teachers' Colleges which sell Child Psychology and Fourth Grade Methods in wholesale quantities. What is new is Dean Holmes' emphasis on the necessity of correlating the science of education with knowledge of the liberal arts subject itself. The two must be integrated so that each individual teacher can apply his technical knowledge differently...
...must also be recognized by the general public. For, until it is, teaching standards will remain low, and teachers will be selected because they attend Sunday School or marry politicians' cousins. Only when the teacher is generally conceived as a technical expert in the art of teaching will this type of teacher be injected into the veins of secondary education. And only then will secondary schools gain the new life which President Conant sees as essential for the perpetuation of democracy...