Word: teaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...will teach first that children learn to live, afterward that they should learn to know. That they should know less and want more. That they should learn less and think more. That they should know less and feel more. That they should have more time for well-conducted animal spirits. That they should look at and admire the sun, moon, stars, flowers, trees, birds and butterflies...
...incident was no put-up job between professor and student. To "teach Professor Prosser some law," Poindexter had brought suit in the Cambridge (Mass.) courts for the return of the pocketed $5, plus $5 damages for mental anguish. Then he reconsidered. By mutual consent, the action was transferred to a mock court in the Harvard Law School. This week, before a courtroom of Harvardmen, District Judge Frederick A. Crafts of Waltham will hear the case of Poindexter v. Prosser. Professor Prosser has retained Professor Edmund M. Morgan, Harvard's expert on evidence, to defend him. Poindexter will have...
Should boys-even little boys-be taught by women? No, said Britain's National Association of Schoolmasters, whose members teach in local council and church schools. At Scarborough last week, the schoolmasters unanimously agreed that teaching was "man's work," and called for a law to abolish schoolmarms. Grumped Schoolmaster D. N. Thomas: "These avaricious hordes of women already have staked a claim in our field, and the sooner they are smoked out, the better it will be for the boys of this country...
...year-old Frankfurt, one of the newest German universities, was too "young" for the honor of being first to get U.S. professors since Hitler. This complaint cut no ice at Chancellor Robert M. Hutchins' 56-year-old Chicago, youngest of top U.S. universities. Eventually other American lecturers will teach at Munich, Heidelberg, Bonn and Marburg...
...their part, the German students seemed most anxious to hear about life in the U.S. But some could not conceal their disappointment when they learned that their new professors were planning to teach ordinary, old-fashioned subjects. They had been hoping to hear about atomic energy...