Word: teaching
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...give us the highest ideals of living, is to teach us to see what is right, and to stick to it unflinchingly, she must care more for the right than for money and popularity. It would be better for her to make men out of a few, than to give a parchment degree to thousands. Moreover, we must hear less of expediency and inexpediency. We must not be told that Harvard is afraid to take the stand for perfect religious freedom, because she fears unpopularity among certain classes. A church and a university can always afford to strive...
...instructor: care should also be taken in selecting a man to teach such a course which admits of great partisanship. He should be able to give a faithful account of all the events that would come up in the course. Nothing injures a student more than a partisan instructor. He should be neither an Anglomaniac, a Francomaniac, a Conservative, a Radical, a Republican or a Democrat...
...does not mean that interest in religion is extinguished. A national college in America must be tolerant. In all colleges students should be taught to respect the forms of religion as well as religion itself. A fruitful source of irreligion is mutual denunciation among sects. Nobody knows how to teach morality effectively without religion. In the classroom the teachers can demonstrate that science is creating a very spiritual idea of God, and that there is no real incompatibility between religion and science...
...remedies proposed by the correspondent are first and foremost, a recognition of the fact that there are good and bad methods of teaching, and that the post graduate study of pedagogy should be encouraged. The instructors should be chosen for their power to teach, and not entirely for what they may know. Both professors and tutors should be paid much higher salaries, and the larger courses provided with additional instructors. Finally the alumnus demands, what seems most significant in view of the self-righteousness of present Yale undergraduate opinion, namely, that compulsory attendance at prayers shall be abolished, together with...
...which, as a candidate for the crew, I beg leave to take one exception. The criticism ran thus: He (the captain) alone of all the crew, understands the necessity there is for hard work, and is doing his best to keep them up to their work and teach them something against their will." Captain Storrow cannot receive too much praise for the energy and perseverance that he has shown in his devotion to the crew. Is it not however, rather strong to say that every other man trying for the crew is being taught something against his will...