Word: teachings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...intervening unstated premise that the only way for Harvard to deal with the national problem is to increase its own numbers. As Saturday's editorial pointed out, however, it would be quite possible to deal with the problem without expanding Harvard College. The University could still prepare others to teach, throw its energies into research on the problem and, above all, hold up its own standards as an example to the nation--in case it does find itself unable to enlarge the College without lowering its quality...
...Keogh, who was born 39 years ago on a 280-acre farm in Platte County, Neb., was eleven and in the seventh grade in 1928 when he was the lone pupil in District 42 School in Burrows Township. With the undivided attention of Teach er Elizabeth Liebig, he studied seventh and eighth-grade lessons simultaneously. In between, he argued politics with Teacher Liebig: she was for Prohibition and against Al Smith; he was for Smith, against Prohibition...
...Nobody know what dat woid means"). Almost every class had its sullen and defiant pupils who would yawn, lounge, drum, stamp, and wander about at will. Whether they worked or not, they knew that the law would keep them in school. Nor did they hesitate to tell "the teach" just what they thought of her. Such students, says Author Dunn, "know your exact place and sooner or later make it known to you. I once requested a student to take off his coat while in class, and he answered precisely: 'You can ask me to take off my jacket...
...Teach the Child." Author Dunn agrees that poverty, broken homes and indifferent parents must share the blame for the plight of the bad big-city school. But after four years, she also decided that the modern educational theories with which she had been in sympathy at first have been a wasteful failure. The experts talked an incessant stream of sentimental nonsense ("We don't teach the subject. We teach the child"). They spoke of the dangers of a "fixed curriculum," and of the necessity of making education "meaningful" by relating every subject to the children's interests...
...committee's work has been directed towards helping the polio patients in Boston's hospitals. An educational program is planned whereby students from the graduate school of Education and the Boston School of Ocupational Therapy will teach manual and fine arts to the victims of this summer's polio epidemic, he explained...