Word: teachings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Haggard, shopworn, peevish- 14,000 workers walked out into the dirty snow of Jan. 26, 1926. They would teach insolent mill owners not to cut wages...
...chair next fall, he of the sleepy-seeming eyes and the insinuating voice. At 72 he is withdrawing from his Boston practice, but not from the editorship of the Journal of Abnormal Psychology. In academic life he is certain to have large classes, for his plans are to teach not alone the causes and the complex descriptions of psychopathic conditions, but also the cures* so far as present knowledge and his ingenuity can suggest such. He will bring living cases for study, explain the facets of their idiosyncracies...
...profession. An architectural designer must be both practical and artistic. The most beautiful building in the world, if it does not fulfill its practical functions, is a miserable failure. An intensely and completely practical building, if it be ugly, is no less so. The School must teach practical things: it must inculcate common sense, practicality, and integrity in is men, at the same time doing all that it can to stimulate their artistic imaginations and encourage their creative instincts. To, encourage either practicality of artistic sensibility is comparatively easy: to stimulate both without stifling either is hard...
...which our attempts at standardization of education has led is that we feel that "to ascend Parnassus one must first tunnel under its base. No more vicious educational fallacy than this was ever uttered": Dr. Davison continues, "the way to right is never through wrong." The way to teach the value of good music is not to teach bad music first. In the teaching of literature today, we do not start the pupil on something he understands, such as a story from one of our popular children's magazines. We start at once with the great masters. Since their taste...
...Thousand and One Nights, learns to set type, begins writing prose and verse for Brooklyn sheetlets, the Star, the Patriot. When city life irks?even New York with John Jacob Astor tinkling through it in his sleigh?he leaves his compositor's stool to go down the Island and teach in rural schools?at Flushing, Woodbury, Whitestone. He is loved everywhere, a big gentle lad who joins in at games as soon as the bell rings; and he is content everywhere?for whenever it seems good to him he walks away, down the country roads, over a plain...