Word: teaching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...executives and with working out a technique by which young men may win quick promotion. It would be concerned as I shall point out in a moment, with something that might have no effect whatsoever upon business success or business promotion. 'A law school does not undertake to teach success', said Justice Holmes, and he is right. The Harvard Business School takes the opposite position, and it is wrong...
...Tardieu asks winebibbers the world over to join in the rescue of the vineyards. They must organize and play politics, to save wine from the greedy budgets and siccant reformers. Imposts, tariffs, taxes, embargoes must fall to make way for the return of Falernian and Caecuban. Propaganda must teach the gospel of Bacchus, and the world be taught again to hold precious the gifts of the god. Meanwhile, liqueurs, the misbegotten brats of Mercury and Ceres, hold sway. Men drink, but they feel the touch of Circe's wand, not the warming joys of gentle Liber. The noisome juniper...
...Colgate's first gifts was a fund of $1,000 a year for beautification. Since then his benefactions have been numerous, but quiet and personal, like the swimming pool whose wall bears a bronze plaque: In memory of the Mothers who, with our College, have tried to teach us to live cleanly, think clearly, play fairly, this Pool is given...
...more concentrated and less diversified; more narrow and less broad. A complete knowledge in one subject is better than a very incomplete knowledge of ten. Perhaps opponents of this plan will say that such an education is narrowing. It is; but since the purpose of education is to teach us to enjoy ourselves and not to earn money, the means whereby we earn that enjoyment must be justifiable if they achieve their purpose. Another argument might be that earning a living is itself narrowing in most cases, yet it would be all the more so if there were no worthwhile...
...week, and two conference meetings a semester; under the present plan there is but one meeting a week and a conference, either individual or group, about every week. Under this plan students learn the principles of composition far better than under the former system. Our real problem is to teach what is called 'examination technique), which boils down to the art of writing a blue book...