Word: teaching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...significant new educational work for Harvard university to undertake in its fourth 100-year period, President James Bryant Conant asked for a fund to create roving professorships. This fund would enable university professors to teach what they chose, when they chose, where they chose...
President Conant aptly stated it, "All through his academic career a university professor would be free to teach the subject in which he was most vitally interested . . . In a few generations . . . university professors . . . might be engaged in the study of subjects of which we do not as yet even dream...
Practical difficulties cannot be brought in as objections. The course has plenty of time for renditions. The music building boasts several phonographs, and records could be obtained from the house libraries. Yet present signs indicate that during the second half year the course will continue to teach music without music...
...help impress some uninspired ones that it be men who count and not courses; that it be inspiration that doth move us along as well as sheer knowledge. Indeed, methinks, there be all too much emphasis on subject matter and too little on the personality of him who doth teach and who doth learn. For what doth a man profit if he gain the knowledge of all the world and yet hath not the feelings of a gentleman or lacks vision and understanding...
...little sparrows on the window-sill, frequent visitors, who did fight most unlady-like over a crust of bread. And I thought to myself: "Stupid creatures. Know ye not economics: Divide, cooperate; and be happy!" And then I did almost hear them say: "Pray, brother, by what example teach you Marx...