Word: teaches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...earlier number of the same magazine, Edward Martin from the editor's easy chair takes stock of the personal qualities of the great educator: "A splendid man; tolerant, generous, bold: not always right, but majestic in the steadiness of his effort to know the truth and teach it, and make it prevail...
...School is honored and favored by the designation. An institution designed for the study of the complicated and difficult problems of education in a democracy and for the preparation, through the study of such problems, of those who are to administer the schools of the country and to teach in them, could go forward under no better auspices. Nor is it granted to many institutions to rejoice in the health and vigor of such a patron at eighty-eight, nor in the happy prospect of his long continued activity...
Miss Hayes, star of J. M. Barrie's drama "What Every Woman Knows", came out to teach the members of the cast and the chorus, womanly grace and stage presence. She also gave instructions as to stage arrangements and the art of making up, which she illustrated on E. F. Gamache...
...Surely we do", said I dancing with glee to know that my faith was justified, for this certainly was Santa Claus. None else would give me a ride in a taxi "Some people think I teach Shakespeare or lecture on the Boston Herald. That is two other people. I teach human kindness pragmatically...
...then, I think we should be fair to ourselves and ask why we are not more successful. We may say that it is because the colleges are in America. For the most part America is a very hard country in which to teach. As Mr. Duggan suggests, America is very busy about a great many other things. It is pretty hard to teach literature in schools to children who come from homes where a good book is never read. It is pretty hard to teach philosophy in a world where there is no taste for it in its social life...