Word: teaching
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...society, the physical power of the workingman is being constantly undermined and will be found woefully lacking when war faces the country. Great Britain has had experience which has proved that capital is destroying the power of the nation, and we are facing a great crisis which may teach us the same thing, unless we profit by her examples and take steps to avert...
...German are prescribed, it has not been considered worth while to force a man to take that which will not only enable him to care for his body with some degree of intelligence, but also to understand some of the laws of nature which parents too often neglect to teach their children. Moreover, "First Aid to the Injured" is taught in Physiology...
...better to force men to learn something which, like hygiene, is of practical value, rather than to teach them to write "See the cat. The cat is yellow," in French or German? We believe it is, and in our opinion Physiology I should be prescribed for Freshmen...
...practical means to teach the application of theory to reality is to interpolate in the regular series of lectures of a course a number of lectures by men who are prominent in the special field that are treated by the course as a whole. This method is occasionally adopted in Economics 1. The advantages to be derived from lectures by outsiders are two-fold. Such experts would, from their own personal experience, be able to illustrate more clearly the practical side of the subject matter of the course and link the substance of the course with actual existing conditions. Also...
...most neglected fields in the range of undergraduate matriculation is that of public speaking. Too many courses are chosen which deal only with the intellect in terms of books and ink; too few, which teach their own use. It is a pity that so few college men realize that the training which a university affords is not the accumulation of a mass of miscellaneous knowledge and erudition, but a preparation for the outside world. And yet so many men persist in disregarding the one requisite which is the most beneficial in every-day life--the ability to talk. Think...