Word: teachers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...annual report, made public yesterday, Holmes stressed the necessity of a scientific knowledge of the various educational problems to a teacher. He attacked the numerous false standards employed by secondary school authorities in the selection of a teacher, declaring that a pleasant "beside manner" alone did not qualify a man to teach...
...public ought to be warned," Holmes asserted, "and the whole educational profession united against the naturally capable but untrained teacher whose very success keeps people from realizing how important it is that educational problems should be studied and that all teachers should study them...
Three things which a prospective teacher might derive from professional courses in education, Holmes said, are: (1) an understanding of the part played by general intelligence in the progress of a pupil; (2) an understanding of the special mental operations and habits required by the course; and (3) knowledge of the personal factors which may interfere with school work...
Three things which a prospective teacher might derive from professional courses in education, Holmes said, are: (1) an understanding of the part played by general intelligence in the progress of a pupil; (2) an understanding of the special mental operations and habits required by the course; and (3) knowledge of the personal factors which may interfere with school work...
...Education is little more than useless and from resentment of the inference cast by the latter's very existence that there is more to teaching than a knowledge of the subject taught. This attitude is merely a single instance of a general attitude to the same effect that teachers are born and not made, that teaching is an art which no amount of training in the science of education can impart. Dean Holmes of the Harvard School of Education has summed it up as the opinion that "any fine boy or girl will make a good teacher" whether...