Word: teachings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bertrand Russell, now on a lecture tour of the United States, describes the difficulties of travel for persons whose opinions have not the official sanction of the country visited. "In England," Mr. Russell writes in his book, "Free Thought and Official Propaganda" (Huebsch), "it is illegal to teach belief in the Christian religion. It is also illegal to teach what Christ taught on the subject of non-resistance. In America no one can enter the country without first solemnly declaring that he disbelieves in anarchism and polygamy, and, once inside, he must also disbelieve in communism. In Japan...
Three universities in particular offer positions. At St. Paul's University, Tokyo, a man is desired who has an A.B. degree, and who is qualified to teach Latin and modern languages. A teacher of English, of engineering, of philosophy and psychology, and a teacher in physics are sought by St. John's University in Shanghai. The third institution, Boone University, Wuchang, desires a teacher of English, a teacher of Science, and a teacher of business subjects...
...however, an ancient phenomenon that the human mind may reason from a false premise to a sound conclusion. This Mr. Russell did when at the end of a speech to the Teaching Union in Manhattan he besought teachers to teach first the love of truth, and not to exalt the merits of any nation or any group at the expense of truth. He denounced the history books now being given to American children which conscientiously describe this country as being altogether without sin, in the beginning, now, and forevermore. Amen...
...Bridges arrived the brilliant Bertrand Russell who is said already to have discovered many corruptions on our shores; and to be retiring shortly to his native heath without much investigation. All this is a tremendous aid to Anglo-American amity. Personally, we favor sending our own Robert Bridges to teach the court of St. James that there are human, charming, gentlemanly literary men still left in a somewhat overcrowded profession...
...first number of the quarterly magazine to be published by the Progressive Education Association. The progressive schools are increasing rapidly in number. . . . They are to be the schools of the future in both America and Europe." Thus did ex-President Eliot encourage the editors of Progressive Education to teach teachers concerning the various developments in progressive education at home and abroad. The first number of the new quarterly contains articles on the three chief systems of individual education now in practice-the Dalton plan (English and American), the Winnetka system (Winnetka, Ill.), the Decroly method (Belgian). It is published...