Word: teaching
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Teach your soft voices to falter...
...blindly to obey. In German institutions, on the other hand, the greatest possible liberty is given the student, and the formation of his character is left to depend entirely upon himself. Both plans are open to censure. The first, by depriving the student of all voluntary power, does not teach him to rely upon himself. The second gives him so much liberty,- at the youthful and inexperienced age at which most students enter,-that opportunities are thrown away, and habits are thoughtlessly formed which are not discovered until too late for their correction. A mean between the two, which would...
...lack of education in art matters is evident, and experience has proved that while the present courses are good as far as they go, one cannot in a year fully master the principles they should teach. We cannot too earnestly express the hope that the possibility of the formation of these new art-courses will speedily become a certainty; and we are confident that, when established, they will never be in want of students...
...this faithfully requires six or eight hours a week of extra work, which is too much for many students. Besides, it is due to our best instructors to give them a position where they will no longer be troubled by marks and examinations, and where they can teach students who chose their electives, not because they were "soft," or because marks were high, or because there was nothing else to take, but with an earnest desire to do their work thoroughly and faithfully. Our professors have written books and essays of great value, but, under the present system, they have...
What kind of exercise can supply that need so well as the old and well-tried art of boxing? What is so good to teach the eye attention and he hand agility, to push back the drooping shoulder and quicken the sluggish blood; to put the whole body into a pliant, healthy condition...