Word: teaching
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Yale College. Such interference is in the highest degree impudent and underhanded. It is not at all a question of free trade or protection which is involved. The case is one of the greatest concern to all college men, as it strikes directly at the right of instructors to teach in the way that seems best to them. However disagreeable the teachings of a professor may seem to any set of men, it is absolutely necessary that the professor should be sustained in his right to present what appears to him the true principles of his subject. The advocates...
...There can hardly be a middle ground," the Post continues very sensibly, "for those to occupy who teach with any effect the principles of political economy. These principles lead somewhere, and it is the duty of the virile mind to follow them. They are taught as principles to be adjusted by the minds that receive them to the situations in which they may subsequently find themselves. Probably neither Prof. Perry, nor Prof. Sumner, nor Prof. Dunbar, would advocate such a revolution in our tariff system as the adoption of absolute free trade. But free trade is the only legitimate rationale...
...responsibility. If such a fire should break out in the night-time in any of the college buildings, the disaster might include life as well as property. A number of these small fires have occurred during the past few years, but it would seem as if the lesson they teach would never be comprehended by the authorities. Are they relying on a system of chances, waiting until there is but one more chance left for a serious disaster, or will they never be convinced of their duty in this respect until actual loss of life occurs? Such a loss...
...divided the church - the pious, devout belivers (such as St. Bernard), who needed no reasons for their faith, and the polemic speculative divine, (such as Abelard), who wished to make theology rational. Second, the system of conferring degrees, after appropriate trials. These were at first simply a license to teach. Third, the formal organization of the primitive university. Europe was unsettled; even in the capitals, the civil power was often unhinged. Wherever multitudes came together there was manifested a spirit of turbulence. The universities often exemplified this fact; and it was found necessary to establish a government within themselves...
...university degree, when first conferred in the literary institutions of mediaeval Europe, is said to have been merely a certificate of proficiency or license to teach. Since then, college education has vastly developed and departed widely from its original standards, so that now a college degree contains in formal meaning little of its ancient significance. The functions of the university in fitting men as teachers is, however, still of great importance. Harvard has begun to expressly recognize this part of its duty by the appointment of an annual lecturer on pedagogy and methods of teaching, to be followed eventually...