Word: teachings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...circular letter sent out by the University Appointment Office to all members of the senior class urges, "men who have any athletic ability or interests, and scholarship enough to warrant them in undertaking to teach others, to consult the Office". There is a constant demand for college graduates as teachers in private and public schools--a demand which, under the present conditions, it is impossible to fill. More and more boys are going to school and college, but fewer and fewer men are appearing to teach them...
...course. Literature is not yet an exact science. But all that can be taught is being taught now in such courses as English 41 and 28, which deal not only with facts (as the writer seems to think) but with the theories of style, taste and method. What they teach is an intelligent critical attitude, which, applied to the actual reading of literature, is the only trustworthy guide to "appreciation...
...introductory courses have been recommended by a committee of the American Association of University Professors, to take a place in the curriculum of every college. The one is to teach freshmen to "think", so that they may more easily become accustomed to the University methods of lectures and individual research; and the second is to give them a general scientific background of "The Nature of the World and of Man". Both are to be prescribed for all first year...
...Eruditi professores" are in large measure what their students make them. These men who teach us must be pedantic pedagogues, they always have been and will continue so. The child's tutor was so inhuman as to call him from his play to books; and the child persisting later finds his professor inhuman. This notion is the school-boy's heritage and is so strong that when an attempt is made to popularize a course, when the professor tries to escape the mould the student fastens upon him, he is criticized as sugar-coating a pill which is preferred bitter...
...hear some business men say", he continued, "that reading, writing, spelling, and cyphering are the only proper objects of education, but I suggest a few more subjects for the schools and colleges to teach. In the first place, men should be trained in the powers of observation; they should be able to see the rocks, the trees, the rivers, and oceans, and to examine them accurately. This training has been particularly neglected in the elementary and secondary schools...