Word: teachers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Laying the cornerstone of the $3,000,000 Thomas Jefferson Memorial in Washington, he made a strong, simple speech, praising George Washington as "a great moderator in bringing together discordant elements in the formation of a constitutional nation"; praising Lincoln as "counsel for the underprivileged . . . foe of malice, teacher of good will"; praising Jefferson for his political philosophy and for his belief "that the average opinion of mankind is in the long run superior to the dictates of the self-chosen." But he also said, "I hope that by January 1941 I shall be able to come to the dedication...
...class find plenty to worry about in such Frost-bites as: "Don't Work - Worry" -or: "I save my scorn for the people who say what everyone else says. If you repeat a thing three times, it isn't true any more." Nobody ever flunks Teacher Frost's "course." "Don't write for A's" says he, "write for keeps, for blood. Writing for A's is just practice. . . . Athletics are more terribly real than anything else in education. It's because athletics are for blood, for keeps. Studies are done just...
...physics-teacher husband and I enjoyed your comment re John Dewey's magnificent unintelligibility (TIME...
...weeks ago when he published the membership of the League Against War and Fascism. Many names were merely on the mailing list. And although the great majority had no notion of the League's Communist affiliations, the complete list was published and the resulting hub-bub forced one school teacher to resign her job, and the rest to become targets of public suspicion...
...place of a rigid up-or-out system, far better would be a plan of advancement based on two standards. The first would be a man's ability as a teacher and as a scholar; the second, the current teaching needs of the university. If these criteria are used it means the creation of an additional associate professorship whenever needed. Such a system of promotion does not necessarily imply a large block of frozen professors, but it does mean that the administration has an open mind regarding their possible...