Word: teaching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Happy Days reported that Major General George Van Horn Moseley (now retired) had advocated "expansion of the CCC to take in every 18-year-old youth in the country for a six-month course in work, education and military training." Happy Days mused: ". . . The teaching of boys to use their fists ... is recognized, even by our religious organizations, as a good and reasonable thing. But to teach a man military training...
...made public yesterday, Holmes stressed the necessity of a scientific knowledge of the various educational problems to a teacher. He attacked the numerous false standards employed by secondary school authorities in the selection of a teacher, declaring that a pleasant "beside manner" alone did not qualify a man to teach...
...teachers must be taught to teach in this manner, the fact must be recognized. It must be recognized by the arts and sciences faculties, for it is only by their cooperation that the training can be brought about. Harvard has to an extent recognized it in the Board for the Degree of Master of Arts in Teaching, composed jointly of professors in Arts and Sciences and professors of Education. Candidates for the degree become proficient in their chosen subject under the former, and study the science of teaching under the latter. But a greater degree of cooperation is necessary...
...study of broadness the idea of survey courses enters. Despite the dangers of superficiality proved to some degree by Chicago University, survey courses are practical for a plan of study which, because of the failure of the secondary schools, must teach the fundamental ideas of the world. It is even possible to design survey courses, so that they will do more than skim the surface...
...Every evil of the lower learning leads up to, and away from, these. The college boards condition the kind and amount of content taught in the schools, and thus mold the type of boy which the colleges for the most part receive. And the result is that the schools teach little useful for the college course, and only what the board exams will test. It is a bizarre fact that because of the board exams much of what could at least be surveyed in school--some government, economics, psychology--is omitted, and such subjects as Latin and trigonometry over-emphasized...