Word: teachers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Born Yesterday. Amusing yarn about a big-shot racketeer who decides to have his dumb blonde educated and picks too good a teacher (TIME...
Following the position set forth in his latest book, "Teacher in America," on the mass production method in American pedagogy, Barzun again asserted that the lecture, as such, slanted from the specialist's outlook, has little value in presenting general education...
Barzun agreed with the Student Council reports on general education that the issue of allotting college budgets to research rather than to teaching was the vital one in connection with the death of tutorial. "To be more than a phonograph," he admitted, "a teacher has to keep abreast of research in his field and do some original thinking...
Reading, Writing and 'Rithmetic. Arithmetic is not so bad, although I cannot multiply as fast as befits a teacher. But writing, my friends! Especially on blackboards! As I was putting some questions on the board, I heard one child whisper to another: "Gee, she writes terrible!" I agreed out loud and told them nobody had taught poor little me to write, and that they'd have to help me. But my greatest hold on the circus is Dramatic Reading. Apparently they have always been read to in a monotone, for they find my delivery most enchanting...
...time to care for children even when they are sick. They have ceased to be problems and are my best students now. And so many others-poor, underprivileged, mishandled creatures, and so worth careful attention. That is what makes it all so damnably hard. How can one teacher give 43 children the time and attention they need...