Word: teaching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cried To help these poor students; it's so hard they've tried! "If we don't fix on something, they surely won't pass, "And then if they don't, why the teacher's an ass! "We don't want to teach grammar, and what-shall we do If we don't take good care that these dunces get through? " Look here," says the chairman, and beams through his beard, I've got the idea;" through his glasses he seared All dissenters. "Hey! Silence! Now listen, youse guys, "Pay attention...
...today." To carry it forward was founded, in 1919, the Progressive Education Association, which now has some 7,000 members. The philosophy of Humanist John Dewey and the work of pioneering Colonel Francis Wayland Parker (1831-1902) of Quincy, Mass. and Cook County, Ill. are implicit in much Progressive teaching. That education at any age should grow out of free individual experience rather than from books is a Progressive fundamental. Because parents who send their youngsters to Progressive schools are of necessity liberal-minded people, and because the system demands their active cooperation, it does not yet represent more than...
...sleepy-eyed, slow-talking savant, went to Manhattan last week to confirm an important discovery about decayed teeth. Dr. R. Gordon Agnew, pathologist, and Mrs. Agnew, nutritionist, had observed that the filthy-mouthed Chinese and Tibetans at West China Union University. Cheng-tu. Szechwan Province, where they teach, had sound teeth under crusts of tartar. The Agnews examined native foods, reasoned that phosphorus and sunlight were the essential preventives of tooth decay. They took leaves of absence from West China Union University to prove their theory on rats at the University of Toronto, their alma mater. Last week they were...
...supply and demand. But it forces to the front an educational issue of vast importance. The traditional view of a college education as a way of increasing income must go. In its place must come the view which educators have all along taken: that college does not teach how to make a living, but how to live. The college man of the future, when he comes to assess the value of his college education, will not look to the richesses of a purse, but rather to the richness of a life...
...cackling of her faithful geese." When he went to the U. S. consulate in Berlin for his visa, Dr. Einstein's tone changed after answering several questions. "I am not going because I desire to visit somebody but because I have been invited'' (to teach at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton...