Word: teaching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...officials took steps to compel them to send the children to school (TIME, May 2). Much to their relish, the Smarts were interviewed and photographed by metropolitan newshawks. Last week they were again in the news. The time had come for Mrs. Smart to prove publicly her fitness to teach...
There is, in truth, some danger in state requirements in Education. Such requirements can not be said surely to make for improvement in teaching. They probably do less harm than you or the Dean of Barnard College may suppose; but argument on that point would have to be extensive, leading to rather nice distinctions. It is clear enough that every teacher who is to do anything like a good job should have all the scholarship implied by a good A.B. degree and more besides. In addition, he should have a thorough and well-ordered knowledge of educational conditions, problems...
...lived 40 years in a simmering green hell where, even the encyclopedias said, a European could not survive a year's visit. She had built tight houses for her black charges. She had tended the sick, cracked an occasional black male pate for wife-beating, tried to teach the Tulasus tidiness and something about her God. In return, the Tulasus called barren Miss Thompson "Mother...
...wonderland, to a walled garden where the lilacs, now past their fullest bloom, but lovely still, run in purple and mauve along the quiet walks. A rampart of hills slope toward the sunset, and their sides are covered with the flower called the torch azalea, whose scentless beauty can teach the Vagabond more than all the sages can. Further on there is a valley where the sentinel pines stand black against a setting of green leaved oaks and hemlocks. There is also a brook, and horsemen clatter over the wooden bridge that bestrides it. A group of boys are sailing...
...that Professor Savage is a very intermittent teacher at Yale, and that, though a trustee, Professor Savage is not a member of the Prix de Rome jury. The eight consecutive winners were really students under Professors Edwin C. Taylor and Deane Keller (a "Little Savage" in 1926) who teach the way Professor Savage paints...