Word: teaching
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...true that "success in life is based upon detailed study of facts," at least for those few who do not wish to become Berlin statisticians. It is if possible even more false that universities have any such raison d'etre. Instructors who think so mistake the proper means of teaching us "how to think and to find out things for themselves." To paraphrase Dr. Lake further: "it is not how much we are taught, but rather how readily we attain the faculty for learning," which makes for success in life. We will never "learn how to teach ourselves by using...
...group may easily change to another group if there is need of it, to provide a similar freedom of interchange of professors so that they should not be too much tied to one group of undergraduates, and to adjust the Freshman studies so that the professors are interested in teaching and know how to teach, while the senior instructors are interested in professional preparation and know what is needed to prepare a man for his profession...
...Harvard Engineering School is organized to teach science to men who are preparing to practice engineering, or certain other sciences, as professions; and those who mean to take up occupations wherein technical training is necessary, or useful. The work of this school, however, covers only part of the instruction in applied science in Harvard University; for other departments of the University have for years been carrying on most important work in applied science. The newly reorganized school includes mechanical, electrical, civil, sanitary, mining and metallurgical engineering, and industrial chemistry often called 'chemical engineering' which is intended...
Also artillery would be easier to teach at the University. There would be more work in the classroom and less on the drill field. In all probability, guns could be obtained from the War Department and practical instruction could be carried on with these...
...part of the University Extension work. These courses are conducted for two hours every Saturday; one of them in Mineralogy, held from 10 A. M. to 12 M., and the other Dynamical and Structural Geology, from 2 to 4 P. M. They are intended for those who wish to teach the subjects or use them in scientific work, or for those who wish a knowledge of them as a part of general education...