Word: teaching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...scientificially trained men are to fill government positions, they must manage to get elected or appointed. Departments of Economics, of Government, and of Sociology may teach men what the Government should do; men trained in these departments may know what to do when or if they ever get into public office; but unless they are also taught how to get elected or appointed, these departments will have little influence on government...
...entirely true that good teachers are rare in the college of today. For every promotion to professorial rank of a man who possesses the ability to teach well, there are a dozen for scholastic accomplishments. Unluckily the two virtues do not always go hand in hand. It is ridiculous, however, to assume that college students require as much "teaching" as those below them in the educational ranks. By the time a student reaches college he is expected to learn, rather than be taught...
...mothers who had been wrangling over the presence of Negro, Japanese and Chinese children at the dedication: "As a War mother I know what it means to suffer. I gave five sons, four to Uncle Sam and one to his old fatherland. It is up to War mothers to teach their children the love of law, and not make a difference between black or yellow or brown or white skins. . . . You make war among yourselves-through your children...
...Brooks labored over the diplomas he looked up and said: "I have tried to teach them how to live. I wish now to teach them how to die." He sent a last message to be read in morning chapel: "Carry on. Men are mortal and pass away, but the ideals upon which Baylor University is built will never...
...training presented a constant problem. General Pershing believed that the War could be won only by driving the enemy out of the trenches and engaging him in open warfare. He believed also that the French had acquired a "defensive complex" and, wedded to trench warfare, lacked the ability to teach the kind of open combat he wanted the A. E. F. to have. Therefore he resisted French instruction methods, insisted that all U. S. troops be drilled for cross-country fighting...