Word: teachings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...current issue of "The Commonweal" states that "the greatest defect of the American colleges is that they teach rather than educate, and the general run of them totally fail to create a love of learning or an enthusiasm for the higher life...
...should guard against certain dangers in their choice of a field of concentration. It is probably a mistake to suppose that the best preparation for a profession is, in every case, to concentrate in that field which is most directly related to the profession. A man who expects to teach English in arterlite might do worse than to concentrate in Greek and Latin; he would still have several free courses that he could give to English; his classical background would be extremely valuable; and he could postpone his concentration in English until he got into the professional school, which would...
...Deneen, 62, was graduated from McKendree College in 1882. He taught country schools for a time and studied law at night. Later, he went to Chicago, had great trouble getting a job, finally secured one in St. Paul at a dollar a day. Returning to Chicago, he began to teach in a night school to pay expenses while he established a practice. He went into ward politics in the city, gradually rose, acquired some reputation as State's Attorney and then served two terms as Governor...
...Teachers of equal training are equal experience should receive equal pay regardless of what grade in elementary or high schools they teach. -Jesse H. Mewlon, Supt. of Denver Schools...
...object is twofold, to turn the student's interest to the mastery of the subject instead of the accumulation of credits in courses, and to teach him to analyze and correlate his knowledge of its various parts. To guide him and help him in doing this he is assigned to a tutor whom he meets at intervals more and more frequent each year of his college life. His tutor is designated as soon as he selects his field of concentration near the end of his Freshman year, and through the three succeeding years of college he has a teacher...