Word: teaching
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Bergson and the American Character. He urges in a very forcible way the view that Bergson's philosophy is not the best food for Americans of today. Bergson is a mystic, and America needs dogmatism. Americans "need to be taught how to think, and not, as M. Bergson would teach them, how to feel." "The intellectual, moral, and social progress which the American civilization is bound to make its own, as a crown to the material progress it has achieved, must be won of thought...
...elementary Latin and Greek he will be allowed to enter with 15 1-2 units of school work. Just how much influence this provision will exert in increasing the study of Greek is hard to say. At present most of those who are studying Greek are doing so to teach it later; and so it goes on, teachers instructing future teachers. This state of affairs may be likened to a dog chasing its own tail and finally dropping exhausted through his efforts. The aversion for the Greek may be too fundamental to be eliminated by a subsidy on the subject...
...twenty-second annual meeting and dinner of the Harvard Teachers' Association will be held tomorrow. The general topic of the day will be "Better Teaching." The morning meeting will be held in Emerson J at 10 o'clock, and will be open to the public. Teachers, school officers, and students who intend to teach are especially invited...
...Teaching in the far East offers an unusual opportunity to college graduates who wish to complete their education by seeing something of the world before settling down to the everyday work of life. This should appeal to men intellectually inclined, who have a love of adventure and of travel over unbeaten paths. The experience of living in the Orient for a year presents educational possibilities which mere travelling cannot give, as it brings a man into intimate touch with the life of the people, and enables him to study it under the most favorable conditions. Now that the importance...
...limited number of men are needed to teach arithmetic, French and German, and to lead boys' clubs. Men interested should see H. Root '13, at Phillips Brooks House on Monday, Wednesday, or Friday morning between 8.30 and 11 o'clock, or Tuesday and Thursday mornings between 11 and 12 o'clock...