Word: teaching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...idea clung to by academic men, namely, that one cannot teach a teacher to teach, has been exploded by the results of Dean Holmes's School in the seventeen years of its separate existence. The School attempts two jobs and does them well; it trains teachers, who must know, besides methods of instruction, educational psychology, mental hygiene, and statistical means of measuring growth and achievement. Through a cooperative arrangement with the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, launched in 1935, the teacher must also be thoroughly acquainted with the subject he is to teach. The second job, the technical training...
...utterly useless for history. Here there is the greatest need for some course to show that Ireland has a culture and tradition of its own, that there is some unity to its long and turbulent history. There are men on the Faculty able and willing to teach these facts, and the University would be wise to make use of them...
...history, art, philosophy, and letters of this country, Harvard has gathered specialists who not only teach but also practice their calling. The student has the rare privilege of learning the history of this oldest living democracy from such men as Morison, Schlesinger and Buck, of reading its literature under Matthiessen, Murdock, and Jones, and of studying its changing thought under Perry and Hocking, themselves able philosophers. So far as pure academic knowledge goes, other fields are equally well covered; but their contributions to the student are infinitely smaller...
...Marion Talley): "If ever a child had a God-given voice, that girl had it. But intelligence about using it? That's something else again." (Maria Jeritza, who she says asked her for voice instruction): "No. You and I are friends now. But if I started to teach you we wouldn't be friends. Let's leave it at that." (Ganna Walska, who made the same request): "Learn to cook. You'll never be a singer...
...Progressive" Education. '"I cannot reconcile myself to a primary education which equips a child with the Eskimo technique of making a snow-house, but does not teach him how to spell. . . . Man has to earn his intellectual bread by the sweat of his brow. Why should primary education attempt to convert our children into little lotus-eaters...