Word: teaching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...founded 1636) but the University of San Marcos, in Lima, Peru. San Marcos was established in 1551. Today, housed in a 16th-Century Spanish colonial building, it is made up of a group of professional schools which train Peruvian Government officials. Last week University of San Marcos began to teach a language so ancient it was new even to old San Marcos. The tongue was Quechua, the dialect of the ancient Inca tribes. From it have come such English words as quinine, cocaine. Quechua is still the language of most of the Peruvian Indians. Although it has no literature...
...just been made in the Harvard curriculum, he said that more seminars are being introduced in the third year which will bring more students in contact with the faculty. This contact, he felt, is needed more by the students lower down the scale than by the top men who "teach themselves...
...Dean added that in determining the best size for any class the abilities of the teacher must be considered. Some men can teach large classes better than seminars. He thought, however, that there was a maximum beyond which no size could be justified...
...this sole required course for Freshmen is to teach through discipline the how of writing. To speak is easy, even for the moron, but not to write. Expression on paper is perhaps the most difficult task that the educated man has to meet. A surprising number pass through Harvard knowing nothing about English literature and--most significant--ignorant of good grammar. To avoid a one-sided training, to stimulate the clarifying and transmitting of ideas, the University should compel, as a primary function, a writing course for every student, regardless of whether he escapes English...
Motion can teach but little to the breast that holds your grief...