Word: teachings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...meanings of the word "education" are manifold. Perhaps the most significant is to teach the people to judge by reason and not by emotion, collectively and individually. Examples of this are on every hand. Perhaps the greatest need is in financial matters, for the aggregate ignorance of the 110 millions in this country, as far as affairs economic are concerned, is nothing short of appalling. When a man like Henry Ford advocates the substitution of some sort of land standard of values for the gold standard, in addition to the many proposed changes chronically being aired, there is good reason...
...give him a liberal education. But the great point it makes is that in astute as the vehicle of all education in England is English the opportune for perfecting if some think in the teacher's> work. It is an simple that if seem startling the been way to teach good English is to do all your teaching in good English. --New York Times...
History tells us--or is it only legend?--that the first of European universities consisted merely of a group of young men so eager to acquire the learning of their time that they combined their small resources and hired certain Wise Ones to teach them. It is easy to believe that the maintainance of discipline in that school, was easy, as such young men would want to get the worth of their money, and if they though any of the Wise Ones was not giving it, his dismissal would be prompt...
...Caroline Spurgeon) that the nation which possesses Oxford and Cambridge has its problems too--"the refreshing of our education in closest relation to life; in order to meet the needs of our great industrial population"--and that "America of all countries in the world, is the one that can teach us most...
...professorship, that of American history, by appointing Samuel Eliot Morison, Ph.D., to fill the chair. As lecturer in history in Harvard University, Dr. Morison has proved himself well equipped for the work which lies before him in England. He will find that much of what he has to teach is news to English students, and that many of their ideas regarding the birth and growth of the United States need correction through a knowledge of history. As regards the early days of our country, and especially the wars of the founders and their successors with the "old country," there...