Word: teaching
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...educated classes of England and the United States hold aloof from one another, the chance for the real international friendship which comes of long acquaintance will be small indeed. It took the actual comradeship of the front line trenches, stripping away social mannerisms and prejudices, to teach the American soldier in France to like and respect the Briton. Unfortunately, it is impossible to stage a war very frequently to promote international good-will. But, if we remain dependent upon newspapers, history books, and casual tourists for our knowledge of foreign countries, the chances for mutual understanding will not be increased...
...cram his head full of facts and pass them, but promptly forget all he has learned. College does not aim to inculcate a mass of detail which may be applied per se in after life--this is left for the technical school. The object of college is to teach a man to think; to give him a general well-rounded intellectual development which he may use in any field of human life. It should teach not facts, but how to find facts when they are needed. Yet the ordinary test in college from its very nature is limited to facts...
...They carry on mad hostility against all established institutions. In a country of unbounded liberty they clamor against oppression. In a country of perfect equality they would move heaven and earth against privilege and monopoly. In a country where the wages of labor are high beyond parallel, they would teach the laborer that he is but an oppressed slave...
...Appointment Office is receiving an unusual demand for men trained in mathematics or science, and for men who have a speaking knowledge of French. The employment would be both in day and boarding schools, and positions are open for those without teaching experience as well as for those who have had previous training in this respect. An opportunity is also offered for men wishing to teach English to foreign students, in either the Near or the Far East. The salaries, beyond payment of all living expenses would not be large. Those interested should call at the Appointment Office...
...wanting to send over to Russia a man who can help those who are seeking council, men who have an elementary knowledge of agriculture, sanitation and dairy work. We do not need a man who can project anything so much as a man who can teach the simple things that he already knows. What the Russians need is clean, healthy boy-life. It would mean a sacrifice perhaps of a year or two of a man's life, yet I can imagine no work from which he could reap greater rewards. The unselfish point of view...