Word: teaching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...brilliant work might be perpetuated. Said he: "If you will find me someone who has generations of artists working in glass behind him, and who will begin work at the age of ten' and work ten hours a day for ten years, then I could begin to teach him." When Rudolph Blaschka died in Germany last week, no such successor had been found...
Professor Ralph Winfred Tyler, University of Chicago's famed chief examiner and professor of education, believes that U. S. high schools and colleges do not teach students to think. Because pedagogues lack even the means of finding out whether students can think, Professor Tyler and colleagues spent three months thinking up a test of thinking. Last month, having excogitated 290 questions and created perhaps the most elaborate thinking test ever devised, they stunned a group of the nation's smartest high-school graduates with it. The examinees were 1,407 high-standing students, trying for 34 University...
When he was 20 he married Elinor Miriam White and two years later entered Harvard for a final wrestle with culture. Two years were enough; he quit and began to teach. He also made shoes, edited a weekly paper (the Lawrence, Mass. Sentinel), finally became a farmer...
...Florence Rena Sabin, 67. In 1893, plain, blonde Florence Sabin graduated from Smith College. After a short period of teaching zoology, she bravely entered Johns Hopkins Medical School, thus starting a long career of firsts: first woman to graduate from the Hopkins, first woman to teach there, first woman member of the Rockefeller Institute, first (and only) woman member of the National Academy of Sciences. She is famed for her discovery of the origin and processes of the lymphatic system, her account of the development of blood cells, her studies of the blood in tuberculosis, her testing of chemical substances...
...purpose of the school would be to teach Portuguese, and to stress the history, geography, art, literature, and economics of Brazil. Instruction would be free to qualified Harvard students, and the Brazilian government would support it financially...